Re: raggedbottom

[Art Hixson]

Running 2.6.4-5 on XP and no errors were reported from the compiler.  I 
didn't prepend a class membership, however, as the docs didn't suggest I 
needed to -- was a class necessary?

Paul Scott wrote:

> Art Hixson wrote:
>
> > I have a \book in which one of the scores is only three staves long.  
> > These got spread across the page, of course, and I wanted to have a 
> > more normal spacing.  Rummaging around in the archives brought up the 
> > raggedbottom and raggedlastbottom concepts.  I tried both of these, 
> > both in \paper and \layout, both true and false -- nothing.  I got 
> > what I wanted by a rather ugly hack which took a lot of research time:
> >
> >    b4. c8 f,2 g2      c2. ~ c2   \bar ":|"    % end of piece
> >  
> >    \stopStaff
> >    \override Staff.Clef #'transparent = ##t
> >    \override Staff.KeySignature #'transparent = ##t
> >    \override Score.BarNumber  #'break-visibility = #all-invisible
> >      s1*200     %lots of padding
> >
> > Isn't there a more elegant way? And what's the meaning of the ragged 
> > bits if they don't do anything in this situation?
>
>
> You didn't tell us what version you are running.  I believe there have 
> been times when raggedbottom hasn't been correct.  I just tested a 3 
> line example (with 'raggedbottom = ##t' in the paper block) with 
> 2.7.33 and it worked perfectly.  I have also found in the past that if 
> there are other errors in your code (Lilypond input) raggedbottom 
> gives undesired results.
>
> Paul Scott



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