Re:Staff Group Spacing of five part score

Oh dear , what an idiot. My troubles resolved by removing ragged bottom true. I'm not surprised no one responded. Its what comes from not understanding all the overrides for spacings etc despite reading and re-reading the manuals. Nothing wrong with the manuals. __

Re:Staff Group Spacing of five part score (Peter Gentry)

The solution I came to was By removing blank-after-score-page-penalty = #10 page-breaking = #ly:page-turn-breaking ragged-bottom = ##t from the top level \paper block and using \bookpart{ \score { \layout { #(layout-set-staf