Re: Automatic vertical spacing when *some* values are fixed

2018-02-14 Thread Urs Liska
Hi David, thanks but that doesn't help, because no, I'm no "setting quartets" but "anything": Am 14.02.2018 um 01:30 schrieb David Wright: until I find something that promises to work generically (i.e. when I don't know the actual music and page layout beforehand)? IIRC you're setting quart

Re: Automatic vertical spacing when *some* values are fixed

2018-02-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 Feb 2018 at 21:41:01 (+0100), Urs Liska wrote: > I know that the music can't be properly printed with the given > combination of paper size, margins and staffsize. But I want > LilyPond to prefer the solution with two systems per page (in this > example) because the compressed variant is

Re: Automatic vertical spacing when *some* values are fixed

2018-02-13 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Torsten, thank you for these experiments and thoughts which will probably bring me forward. Although they essentially miss the point - probably I should have copied more information from the earlier thread. Am 13.02.2018 um 20:45 schrieb Torsten Hämmerle: Hi Urs, With the top and bottom

Re: Automatic vertical spacing when *some* values are fixed

2018-02-13 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Hi Urs, With the top and bottom fixed, the only flexibility left lies in varying the distances between systems and staves. Unfortunately, the system-system-spacing has a default minimum distance of 8 (between the systems) and squeezing three systems into one page seems to be better than stretching

Automatic vertical spacing when *some* values are fixed

2018-02-13 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, recently (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2018-01/msg00576.html) I asked about how to use the vertical spacing variables to force the top system to an absolute position, which I could achieve with the basic-distance and minimal-distance of top-system-spacing and its s