On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 3:33 PM Dave Shield <dave.shi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been trying to adjust the width of the final line of a piece,
> where lines are being explicitly broken at specific points, and the
> last line would naturally be significantly shorter than the others.
> If I use a non-ragged layout, the final line ends up overstretched
> and looks ridiculous - if I turn on "ragged-last" then the final line
> is compressed much more than the others. How can I get the general
> spacing of the last line to be similar to the other lines in the
> following example? (i.e. roughly half the width of the page).
>
> I can't help feeling I'm missing something obvious, but nothing I've
> tried so far seems to work. Where am I going wrong?
>
One way to deal with this would be to add a new spacing section:
\version "2.22.1"
scale = \relative c' { c d e f g a b c }
halfscale = \relative c' {
\newSpacingSection
\override Score.SpacingSpanner.spacing-increment = #2
c d e f
}
\score {
\new Staff {
\scale \break
\scale \break
\halfscale
}
\layout {
% If set '##f', the last line is stretched across the full page,
% and looks much too sparse
% If set '##t', the last line is compressed into a minimal width,
% and looks much too compact
% How can this line be scaled to occupy about half the page width
% and hence have the same spacing as the rest of the piece?
ragged-last = ##t
}
}
--
Knute Snortum
