On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 00:20 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
Graham King <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 19:15 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> <snip>
>
>>
>> However, your original posting stated:
>>
>> > (Alternatively, if there's a way to make book-titling.ily do a
>> > ragged-last-bottom for each piece, that would save even more work).
>>
>> Have you actually tried
>>
>> \layout {
>> ragged-last-bottom = ##t
>> }
>>
>> before anything else? That should be taken as starting point for all
>> following \layout blocks.
>>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> I can't pretend to have a very firm grasp of scoping in lilypond, but I
> have now (re-)tried by putting this \layout block in various places,
> including before the \include for each piece. I've also tried inserting
> it in Nicolas Sceaux's example at the bottom of the book-titling.ily
> code (snippet 368). All without success, alas.
"before anything else" means before anything else. Namely first.
Particularly before loading book-titling.ily.
I've tried it at the top of the master file that I compile to create the PDF containing all the pieces:
\version "2.19.32"
#(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f)
\layout {
ragged-last-bottom = ##t
}
The last page of each piece is still as if ragged-last-bottom were
##f. The final piece might be affected but I can't tell because it fills the last page with systems anyway.
Thanks for the clarification, but I'm thinking we're flogging a dead horse in trying to get book-titling.ily to do this.