the following assumes you've checked out
http://www.nabble.com/Controlling-vertical-spacing-exactly---mini-HOWTO-to8419399.html
and decided against calculating the Y-offset of every staff on every page.
my current kludge:
\once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'Y-extent = #'(0.0 . X.X)
where X.X
Hi,
Are there any plans for a setting that could be used for setting the
spacing between the title / header and the first system? Now the
spacing is affected by between-system-padding. Usually it's OK but if
you're making e.g. a song book that have songs with different paddings
the results are not