Re: Printing music compactly

[Francisco Vila]

2010/5/16 David Sumbler <address@hidden>:
> So, can anybody give me a quick hack to get music which is proportioned
> normally (as regards the ratios between staves, note-heads, text etc.
> etc.), and which has little or no wasted space between staves?  The
> default vertical spacings in Lilypond do seem to be rather bizarre.

Try this to eliminate any space between systems:

\paper {
  between-system-spacing=#'((space . 0) (padding . 0))
}

Negative values for padding are also possible but of course not
recommended, as G clefs would overlap.

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