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It's under "Simple tasks"; follow the right link, then see "small additions". Cheers, - Graham On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:26:22PM -0600, Walter Hofmeister wrote: > Hi Xavier, > That was kind of my point. I had looked at that page in the manual and > several others, but there is no example of the syntax that Francisco has > provided. The example that is quoted there is as follows: > > Example: > > \paper { > paper-width = 2\cm > top-margin = 3\cm > bottom-margin = 3\cm > ragged-last-bottom = ##t > } > > This snippet is the most extensive one there and it suggests a syntax that is > like the example that I provided. By the way this is the way it has been > done in previous versions and I for one thought this was a very user friendly > way of doing it. I tried the line that Francisco provided and it had no > effect here. Am I the only one this isn't working for? Thanks for your > suggestions and I apologize to the list members if some of this sounds like > it is blaming them for my frustration. I have been playing around with this > for about a month with no avail. I know that I should have asked sooner. > Anyway thanks for any help that you can provide. > > Walter Hofmeister > > > On 2010-04-22, at 5:31 PM, Xavier Scheuer wrote: > > > 2010/4/23 Walter Hofmeister <guith...@sasktel.net>: > >> Hi, > >> I have been trying to get a handle on vertical spacing for > >> a while now with no luck. Everything that I have tried since about > >> 2.11 has not worked at all. Here is a sample of a test that I have > >> made up: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong? I have checked the > >> archives and have found that this question is coming up but there > >> have not been any explanations as to how the new spacing now works. > >> The docs seem to be very much like the docs have always been in this > >> section but I think that I am trying to do what they are suggesting > >> but nothing seems to work. Any help in this regard would be much > >> appreciated. Thanks. > > > > Hi, > > > > Vertical spacing syntax has changed for 2.13. > > Please check 2.13 version of the doc: > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/vertical-spacing#Vertical-spacing > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/page-formatting#Vertical-dimensions > > (second one explain better the new syntax). > > > > See also the answer I gave here: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-02/msg00393.html > > > > Cheers, > > Xavier > > > > -- > > Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com> > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user