Re: stretchable systems

[stk]

Section 10.1.6 "Vertical Spacing" of the user manual says that
the default padding of every staff is specified by

   \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-4  .  4)

so you could force the staves further apart by doing that  \set
for each staff (but using a bigger value than 4, like #'(-7  .  7)

And section 9.1.2 "Changing Context Properties on the Fly" has an example
that says that
   \set autoBeaming = ##f
is equivalent to
   \set Voice.autoBeaming = ##f
because autoBeaming is a Voice property, but that one *could* say
   \set Staff.autoBeaming = ##f
to get this to apply to all the voices in a staff.  From this, I
conclude that you could probably (?) say

   \set Score.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-7  .  7)

to get it to apply to all the staves in a Score.  There's a piece I'm
going to have to apply this to in some form, but I'm still working on the
actual music and haven't gotten down to the layout problems yet.  If I'm
wrong about the \set Score.---------- conjecture for a Staff property,
I'm sure someone will post a corrective message :)

-- Tom

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Nicolas Sceaux wrote:

Hi,

Considering a piece with N-staff systems, with no room on a page for 3
systems, only for two, but with lot of space left, I can't find if it is
possible to automatically enlarge (I hope that this word won't make this
message marked as spam) the space between staves in a system, up to a
certain distance, so that there should be less space between the two
systems.

Before:
----- page -----
/==
|==
\==





/==
|==
\==
----- page -----

After:
----- page -----
/==
|
|==
|
\==

/==
|
|==
|
\==
----- page -----

If this does not exist yet, but is sponsorable, I'm interested.

nicolas

PS: is there a problem with the mailing list search page? Searching on
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