Re: space between pianostaves

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Mon, 3 May 2010, Xavier Scheuer wrote:

> Sorry if it does not work, I'm truly not an expert in this new vertical
> spacing engine (I still need to improve my understanding of this)...
>
> BTW here are the related links in the doc:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/vertical-spacing-inside-a-system
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/page-formatting#Vertical-dimensions


Thanks, I will experiment with your suggestions. I want to learn the art 
of tweaking anyway!

I was confused by NR 4.1.2 (Page Formatting - Vertical Dimensions) where I 
read:


" between-system-spacing

    Specifies the spacing between the center of the bottom staff of one 
system and the center of the top staff of the following system. See 
after-title-spacing. "

I tried this in my \paper {} section with my pianosolo score. My 
understanding of a "system" is the combination of - in my case - the RH + 
LH staves. But when I tried between-system-spacing the space between the 
systems did NOT change as I expected, but the space between the LH and 
RH staves inside the system did.


I wished this would be called something like "between-staff-spacing" and 
that another "between-system-spacing" would really do what it promises ? 
Or am I missing or misunderstanding something ?


Trying to avoid using \override and schemish things as much as possible, 
another way I came close to what I was trying to accomplish was simply 
using a \pageBreak. But this only helped to improve the spacing on my 
first page but not on my second. (The piece fits on two pages, but then 
leaves too much whitespace at the end of the piece). And, this would not 
work for smaller, one page pieces.

An easy but ugly workaround was to add for example
B
        \pageBreak \s

at the end of the piece.

This gave me a perfectly formatted  printed two page score, plus a third 
garbage page. Except for that last useless page, I must say I liked this 
method best. Does another command exist that tells Lilypond to use the 
complete last page for formatting ? If not, why not allow the user to use 
\pageBreak at the end of a piece (or another, new, command) to produce 
this effect without an extra dummy page being printed ?


What I'm looking for is an easy way to control the number of PianoStaff 
systems per page.
I now have several methods I can use, but still feel things are more 
complicated than they ought to be.

--

Martin