Re: raggedbottom

[Paul Scott]

Art Hixson wrote:

> I have a \book in which one of the scores is only three staves long.  
> These got spread across the page, of course, and I wanted to have a 
> more normal spacing.  Rummaging around in the archives brought up the 
> raggedbottom and raggedlastbottom concepts.  I tried both of these, 
> both in \paper and \layout, both true and false -- nothing.  I got 
> what I wanted by a rather ugly hack which took a lot of research time:
>
>    b4. c8 f,2 g2      c2. ~ c2   \bar ":|"    % end of piece
>  
>    \stopStaff
>    \override Staff.Clef #'transparent = ##t
>    \override Staff.KeySignature #'transparent = ##t
>    \override Score.BarNumber  #'break-visibility = #all-invisible
>      s1*200     %lots of padding
>
> Isn't there a more elegant way? And what's the meaning of the ragged 
> bits if they don't do anything in this situation?

You didn't tell us what version you are running.  I believe there have 
been times when raggedbottom hasn't been correct.  I just tested a 3 
line example (with 'raggedbottom = ##t' in the paper block) with 2.7.33 
and it worked perfectly.  I have also found in the past that if there 
are other errors in your code (Lilypond input) raggedbottom gives 
undesired results.

Paul Scott