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Re: what do you use ragged-bottom for?


From: Carl Peterson
Subject: Re: what do you use ragged-bottom for?
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:17:27 -0500

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
On 11/16/13 10:38 AM, "Mark Stephen Mrotek" <address@hidden> wrote:

>Mr. O'Hara:
>
>My use of the ragged bottom is very particular. I use Lilypond to set
>piano
>scores for viewing on a tablet (easy page turning!). In a set of
>variations,
>some (if not all) of the variations might not be long enough to fill the
>page, and two consecutive variations would be too much. Each variation is
>started on a new page. Without the "ragged-bottom" the distance between
>the
>staves is "stretched" to occupy the entire length of the page. From page
>to
>page this change in distance confuses my "eye." With the ragged-bottom the
>distance between staves is consistent and my eye tracks comfortably.
>Another
>solution may exist. This is the one that I found and use.

If your variations are only one page long, you could achieve the same
effect with ragged-last-bottom.  Keith is asking about ragged-bottom,
which applies to every page of the score.

Thanks,

Carl


I have a similar application to Mark's. I use LilyPond to prepare slides for projecting hymns. I found at one point that if I do not use ragged-bottom, then if a section of music requires one system per slide (such as when each voice has its own lyrics), then a flush bottom will stretch the system vertically to fill the space, which is not visually pleasing, nor is it ideal for the people singing. This may be a function of something else, but that's the association I found.

Carl Peterson

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