Re: The mystery of vertical spacing

2021-09-06 Thread Paul Hodges
Ah, right - the number of systems on the first page didn't change, and I stopped there instead of looking at later pages as well. I'll experiment with nopagebreak. I already have a voice with just time signatures, skips and breaks, so that'll be a handy place to put them. Thanks, Paul On 06/0

Re: The mystery of vertical spacing

2021-09-06 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 06/09/2021 à 11:37, Paul Hodges a écrit : Thanks for this explanation, which puts flesh onto the understanding I'd been coming to. However, I can't see what your example at the end is doing. Commenting out the override makes no difference to the output, so a little explanation might help

Re: The mystery of vertical spacing

2021-09-06 Thread Paul Hodges
Thanks for this explanation, which puts flesh onto the understanding I'd been coming to. However, I can't see what your example at the end is doing. Commenting out the override makes no difference to the output, so a little explanation might help me. What I guess I'd be interested in at this

Re: The mystery of vertical spacing

2021-09-05 Thread Valentin Petzel
Okay, The problem is this part here: [1] Lilypond fails to correctly estimate the extend of that bit and overestimates. This results in this extent estimate: [2] (the arrow in the middle), which is significantly longer than the actual system, resulting in Lilypond believing that there is spac

Re: The mystery of vertical spacing

2021-09-05 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Hi, Okay. The problem seems to be that for the upper system the extent estimate is larger than it should be. Consider setting the debug-skylines option (-ddebug- display-skylines from CLI or #(ly:set-option debug-skylines) from file). Maybe we find something. It took me a year of contributing

Re: The mystery of vertical spacing

2021-09-05 Thread Paul Hodges
Setting that option draws coloured lines along the skyline. At first glance the lines hug the notation tightly throughout, as I'd expect. But in the first line of the piece there are a couple of small oddities. (1) towards the end of the third staff (bar 7, secondo), the top skyline has a bli

Re: The mystery of vertical spacing

2021-09-05 Thread Valentin Petzel
Okay. The problem seems to be that for the upper system the extent estimate is larger than it should be. Consider setting the debug-skylines option (-ddebug- display-skylines from CLI or #(ly:set-option debug-skylines) from file). Maybe we find something. signature.asc Description: This is a di

Re: The mystery of vertical spacing

2021-09-05 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello Paul, Sadly your attachment is of little value, since it is a screenshot of so little resolution that one cannot read what’s there. Why not attach the PDF? Cheers, Valentin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: The mystery of vertical spacing

2021-09-05 Thread Knute Snortum
On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 1:01 PM Paul Hodges wrote: > > One of the hardest things to find information on, it seems to me, is how > to adjust vertical spacing. There's lots of information about adjusting > spacing within systems, but little about fitting systems on a page. > > In the example below,

The mystery of vertical spacing

2021-09-05 Thread Paul Hodges
One of the hardest things to find information on, it seems to me, is how to adjust vertical spacing. There's lots of information about adjusting spacing within systems, but little about fitting systems on a page. In the example below, there is lots of space between the systems. The global fon