Re: vertical spacing not under my control

[James Wilkinson]

I added a \paper block and put in it

between-system-spacing = #'((space . 20) (stretchability . 30))

which I found in the "Vertical Dimensions" section, which I got to 
from a link in the "Vertical spacing between systems" sections that 
one of you pointed me to. For a while it kept saying

"warning: couldn't fit music on page"

although it did in fact fit the music on the page. The last staff was 
right down at the bottom of the page just above the "Music engraving 
by LilyPond 2.13.29.......". I fooled around with it for a while and 
finally got something that I liked with space = 20 and stretchability 
= 30. I'm writing this because that whole process was a matter of 
trial and error. The problem is that I have just a vague idea of what 
those numbers mean. That leaves me with some questions:

"space is the size of the stretchable space ...."   means a lot more 
to you guys than it does to a newbie like me. I guess that it's an 
upper limit on the amount of space that stretching can give you????

"stretchability controls the stretchable space's propensity to 
stretch ....."  is this a maximum percentage of the stretchable space 
that will actually be used?

Maybe some more snippets would help. I didn't find anything in the 
archive that exactly addressed this.


thanks again


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