If you read the section on "page Layout" in the Reference Manual,
you will find that
\paper{
...
interscorelinefill = 1
}does the trick of automatically spreading the white space between the lines of the score.
Hans' answer could be used in addition, if you want to make sure to minimize the minimal possible spacing to be able to squeeze in your score in as few pages as possible.
/Mats
Hans Forbrich wrote:
This is one of the frustrations I meet up with regularily. I hope this helps (and also hope that others have better knowledge/experince to share), but the best I have come up with to date is in 3 steps:
1) ensure that the correct papersize is set (before setting the 'font') so at the start, right after the header & before my notes, I have
\paper = { papersize = "letter" } \include "paper16.ly"
(this does not seem to work right in my Cygwin/Lilypond 1.6.7 but is great in Suse Linux, esp. Lilypond 1.7.12/13. I have not traced why, so not sure whether it's a bug.)
2) minimze the 'reserved staff area' ... for each Staff/Lyric/ChordName \property Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'( -3 . 3 )
3) set the paper block in the score to modify the 'print area'
\paper { interscoreline = 10\mm % seems to be space between systems textheight = 252\mm % seems to be total space allowed for Lily on page linewidth = 170\mm % seems to be space across the page for a system \translator { \HaraKiriStaffContext } }
I've played with these things until the frustration has been minimized, and I find that 1) & 3) are simply 'cut & paste' whereas 2) usually takes a bit of fiddling. For example, min vertical extent for Lyrics usually ends up ( -1 . 0 ), ChordNames ( 0 . 0 ), Staff somewhere around ( -2 to 3 . 1 to 3 ) I'm starting down the Lilybook path now in hopes to get a better control over this.
HTH /Hans
Daniel Ashton wrote:
I'm working with organ music, so three staves, of which the top two are in a StaffGroup. This is with 1.6.8/cygwin or 1.6.5/redhat
let line = a set of measures in all staves (What's a better word for line in this definition?)
I can understand that lily cannot squeeze another line onto the current page. However, it leaves a fair amount of white space at the bottom of the page. Is there a way to have lily dynamically spread the extra white space (or some of it) between the lines?
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