Re: Can not get my layout right

[Nick Payne]

On 22/12/12 05:44, Daniel Roussel wrote:
> Thank you,
>
> I read this section and tried to use those before posting to the mailing list 
> and it would do nothing.  In the end, it was a simple case of properly RTM.  
> Those properties do not take numeric values but rather alists.  I finally got 
> my score to look like pretty much like I wanted.
>
> In the end, I used those settings :
>
> \paper {
>         %annotate-spacing = ##t
>         markup-system-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 25) (minimum-distance . 
> 15) (padding . 1) (stretchability . 30))
>         system-system-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 15) (minimum-distance . 
> 10) (padding . 1) (stretchability . 60))
>         top-system-spacing    = #'((basic-distance . 10) (minimum-distance .  
> 5) (padding . 1) (stretchability .  30))
>         ragged-bottom = ##t
> }

Actually, if it's only one of the properties that you want to change 
from the default, then you don't need the alist. e.g.

\paper {
  markup-system-spacing #'padding = #3
}

is quite valid if you want to change just the padding between the header 
fields and the first system of the score.

Nick