Re: Staff.VerticalExtent in lilypond 2.4.0?

[Paul Scott]

Cameron Horsburgh wrote:

> Dominik Baenninger wrote:
>
> > In earlier versions of lilypond (e.g. 2.2.6) I reduced the space between
> > the staffs with
> >
> > \score {
> >    << \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-1 . 1 )
> >       \set Staff.VerticalExtent = #'(-1 . 1 )
> >       \hornOneNotes>>}
> >
> > > From the manual of 2.4.0 I learned that Staff.VerticalExtent does not
> >
> > exist anymore. In which way can I reduce spaces between staffs? If I use
> >
> > score {
> >    << \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-1 . 1 )
> >       \hornOneNotes>>}
> >
> > As the manual says, then I can only increase but not decreas the space
> > between the staffs.
> >
> > Has anyone an idea?
> >
> > Dominik
>
>
> I too have had this problem. Does anyone have any ideas how to reduce 
> the space between staves? I have a piece where about five of the parts 
> have a single orphan staff on page two, but this command doesn't seem 
> to fix the problem.

The general idea is covered in "7.5.11 Page layout."  The spacing is 
getting much smarter and was improved in 2.4.0.  Some of the control is 
with "raggedbottom" and "raggedlastbottom" as well as other variables in 
that section.  It is still not working completely as I will report 
elsewhere but it does solve many problems.

HTH,

Paul Scott