Thanks for the suggestions. I did get this to work. What prevented the new line from working is I had forgotten to take out the line:
between-system-spacing = 65\mm Once this was removed it started to work. I am planning to write something for the docs once I figure out how the different numbers effect the way the spacing is calculated. At least it is working now. Walter Hofmeister On 2010-04-22, at 6:42 PM, Francisco Vila wrote: > 2010/4/23 Walter Hofmeister <guith...@sasktel.net>: >>>> between-system-spacing = 65\mm >>> >>> This should have the form >>> >>> between-system-spacing = #'((space . 12) (minimum-distance . 8) (padding . >>> 1)) >>> >>> as stated in the docs. >> >> I have checked the docs and I see nowhere a line that looks like this. Is >> there something that I am missing? Sorry. > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/page-formatting > > I agree with you, there are no ready-to-use examples where they > should. The notation manual is written in a reference style (not > tutorial-style) and the tutorial does not cover these complexities. > So we still have to find an intermediate place for things like these. > >> Also I have tried this line that you have provided and it had no effect. Any >> ideas? Thanks. > > Well, the line I provided sets the defaults in > ly/paper-defaults-init.ly, but you could try increasing the 12 to 20 > for example. My example only showed the form of the setting without > really changing anything. > > There is a real example in > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/changing-spacing.html > > to achieve fewer pages. > > What happens if you supress this line completely? > > % between-system-spacing > > Also, take into account that [at least for some users] the word > 'ragged' could mean the opposite of what you think. > > ragged=true means unjustified, > ragged=false means justified. > > -- > Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) > www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
