Re: Dubious recommendation about ragged-last-bottom in spacing.itely

[Pavel Roskin]

Quoting David Kastrup <address@hidden>:

> Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Speaking of the defaults, the default system-to-system distance is too
> > short for my taste.  It may be OK it would save a page turn.  However,
> > it's used on the last page with ragged-last-bottom=#t even if there is
> > enough space on the page to use the same system-to-system distance as
> > on the previous page.  Often the last page has the worst layout
> > compared to previous pages.
>
> Huh?
>
> <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1377>
>
> Fixed_2_15_23

Indeed, I confirm it.  I still use Lilypond 2.14.2 for scores I intend  
to submit to Mutopia, so I remembered that the last pages didn't look  
good.  So I checked the documentation about ragged bottom and found  
that it should be true.  It just occurred to me recently that the  
documentation likely meant "false".

By the way, the documentation still needs to be updated:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-_005cpaper-variables

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If a page has a ragged bottom, the resulting distance is the largest of:

    basic-distance,
    minimum-distance, and
    padding plus the smallest distance necessary to eliminate collisions.
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Not anymore, and it's a good thing!

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin