Re: More vertical spacing confusion

[Joe Neeman]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Adam Spiers
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a piece of music which should easily fit on one page, and
> indeed does until I change the paper size from A4 to US Letter, at
> which point the final system spills over onto a second page.  The
> source and resulting PDF are here:
>
>  http://adamspiers.org/music/lilypond/
>
> I am using a fresh build of the main git development branch.
> (Apologies for not being to include a concise test case, but obviously
> the spacing issue is a symptom of stacking chords and a RhythmicStaff
> on top of a normal Staff.)
>
> After enabling spacing annotation, I trawled the documentation e.g.
>
>  http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/displaying-spacing
>
> and list archives for an explanation of the various annotated lines,
> but came up short.  I see I am not the first to be a bit confused
> about how all the vertical spacing variables and algorithms work, e.g.
>
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel/31049/
>
> So I have several questions:
>
>  - Is the behaviour I am experiencing (a system spilling over onto a
>    second page) correct or a bug?  If correct, what's the best way to
>    avoid the spillage?

\paper {
  ragged-last-bottom = ##f
}

By default, ragged-last-bottom is ##t, so lilypond has no incentive to
avoid that dangling system on page 2.

Cheers,
Joe