Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

[Bill Mooney]

Greetings Keith, and others...
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Keith wrote...
Actually, I'm trying to help clean up bugs in the spacing system, so I
investigated this:

>I've tried your sample file and still there is no
>change whatsoever with the score-system-spacing values. I don't know 
>why ---

The score-system-spacing settings handle the case when there is no 
markup text between scores. (If there is markup text, the LilyPond uses 
markup-system-spacing instead.)

Bill's helpful comment (with my minor correction)
piece="score-system-spacing affects spacing between 'scores' - but not 
between [markup like title, piece, etc.] and the score"
was itself markup text, so adding it caused LilyPond to refer to
markup-system-spacing instead.

We have to appreciate the irony in that.
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Yes, commenting out the 'piece = { .... }' enables both score- and 
system- spacing commands to work... and thanks for the info on the fact 
that LP uses markup-system-spacing. But, isn't that somewhat 
non-intuitive? And it will require a fairly complex explanation in the 
docs to make it really clear, particularly to those users such as myself 
who need a good bit of hand-0holding! :)
... and how does one then achieve score- spacing if there are items like 
'piece' in the composition?

Ah well, back to the vellum...

Regards,
Bill