Re: Staff.VerticalExtent in lilypond 2.4.0?

[Karl Hammar]

Cameron Horsburgh <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dominik Baenninger wrote:
> 
> > In earlier versions of lilypond (e.g. 2.2.6) I reduced the space between
> > the staffs with
> > 
> > \score {
> >    << \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-1 . 1 )
> >       \set Staff.VerticalExtent = #'(-1 . 1 )
> >       \hornOneNotes>>}
> > 
> >>From the manual of 2.4.0 I learned that Staff.VerticalExtent does not
> > exist anymore. In which way can I reduce spaces between staffs? If I use
> > 
> > score {
> >    << \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-1 . 1 )
> >       \hornOneNotes>>}
> > 
> > As the manual says, then I can only increase but not decreas the space
> > between the staffs.
> > 
> > Has anyone an idea?
> > 
> > Dominik
> 
> I too have had this problem. Does anyone have any ideas how to reduce 
> the space between staves? I have a piece where about five of the parts 
> have a single orphan staff on page two, but this command doesn't seem to 
> fix the problem.

Does this help:

\paper {
    betweensystemspace = 10 \mm
%    betweensystempadding =
}

Described in:
 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.4/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Page-layout.html

Regards
/Karl