Re: \markup \score with independent \paper settings

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

I had no clue I can simply throw paper variables in a layout block too ...

You can't in general. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/the-layout-block.html says:

The \paper variables that can appear in a \layout block, with default values taken from the \paper block are:

• line-width, ragged-right and ragged-last (see \paper variables for widths and margins)
• indent and short-indent (see \paper variables for shifts and indents)
• system-count (see \paper variables for line breaking)

This kind of makes sense, considering that

i) system-count, indent, line-width etc. can obviously differ from \score to \score,

ii) every \score can have its own \layout,

whereas

iii) things like margins, footers etc. (and also ragged-bottom) are, so to speak, properties of the "paper", not of single scores.

But this logic it's a bit inconvenient that fonts definitions, staff size etc. are in the \paper block, because they might reasonably be changed on a per-score basis. (There is layout-set-staff-size, but it has some well-known bugs.)

What causes me trouble me most often is the fact that system-system-spacing seems to work only at \paper level. Why isn't this a \layout property?

Lukas