Re: Staff spacing, and glissandos

[Paul Scott]

Tom Cornall wrote:

> Hi - I've just started using LilyPond and it's fantastic, I love it!
>  
What version?

> However, I do have a couple of problems. The first one is probably
> easily fixed; I have a score which fills up one page then leaves just
> one line onto the next page. Is there some way to shrink the spacing
> between staves (there is only one instrument, I mean lines of staves)
> so that I can fit the entire song onto one page?
>  
In the section Graham mentioned pay attention to raggedbottom and 
raggedlastbottom.  I still don't know what their default values are and 
they only work correctly for simple cases.  (Sorry Han-Wen.  I haven't 
produced an example showing this problem.)

> The second problem is probably a little harder. I understand LilyPond
> is targeted more for classical music; however I write a lot of jazz,
> and articulations are somewhat lacking for, say, trumpet parts - there
> is no way to write a fall, or 'doit' or a 'squiggly' glissando (as
> opposed to just the straight line). Is there some kind of extra font
> or package that I can get that lets me add in such ornaments?
>  
This should be what you want:

\override Voice.Glissando #'style = #'zigzag

Paul Scott