Re: Staff spacing, and glissandos

[Paul Scott]

Tom Cornall wrote:

> Thankyou very much! The \override Voice.Glissando #'style = #'zigzag
> worked perfectly.
>
> However, applying "\set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-4 . 4)" and
> trying various values for the things between the brackets changed
> nothing - still same spacing. I am using version 2.4.2. I cannot find
> a reference to raggedbottom or raggedlastbottom in
> "http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Vertical-spacing.html#Vertical-spacing";
>  
You're close.  It's in 7.5.11 Page layout 
<cid:part1.07040202.02020306@ultrasw.com>

> . Im taking a guess here, but could the reason why \set
> Staff.minimumVertical Extent isn't working because I have only one
> staff (one instrument, a Trumpet), and this variable is designed to
> change spacing between different instruments?
>  
I think it's because the defaults for raggedbottom and/or 
raggedlastbottom are true.  Try setting them to false in different 
combinations.  An attempt to spread the music neatly over one or more 
pages was introduced recently.  It works fairly well but it's not 
perfect yet.

> Thankyou for all your help and prompt response to this n00b,
>  
You're welcome.

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