Re: Controlling between-system-padding for specific systems

[Keith E OHara]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:33:30 -0700, <address@hidden> wrote:

> I know it is possible to control the between-system-padding of an entire
> score, but I want to know if it is possible to do that for specific
> systems instead?

For practical purposes, Richie, I would so 'no'.

There is a snippet <http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=227> that does what you 
ask, but I would not recommend it, because the particular aspect of LilyPond that 
this snippet uses will change significantly in 2.14, so you would then have to learn 
something different.
(I can only speaking for myself, but I am unable to adapt that snippet to work 
on the development version 2.13.37)

I do not hesitate to tell LilyPond to treat a particular item as if were 
bigger, especially if that item is associated with the reason that I want the 
extra space :

% I want a 30-staff-line gap above the line where this tempo-change falls
\once\override Score.RehearsalMark #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(0 . 30)
\mark "Allegro Molto"