Re: Question: VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent

[Robin Bannister]

Thomas Scharkowski wrote:
> Since Lilypond 2.11. this does not work anymore 

I have a lot of single sheets based on a 2.10 template which ensured 
I had enough vertical space for pencilling in fingering. 
The vertical spacing rework in 2.11 gave me the same problem. 

This is probably to do with the skyline feature which tries to let 
the vertical outliers of neighboring systems mesh. This won't happen if 
the system extents aren't allowed to overlap. 
You can see this difference by redoing your two cases with the LSR 257 code 
\layout {                     
   \context {
   \Score
   \override System  #'stencil = #box-grob-stencil
   }
}

So minimum-Y-extent is pretty useless for this sort of thing. 
Have a look at the \paper variables in NR 4.1.2, e.g. try 
    between-system-space = 29\mm

I found the Measure dialog box in GSview very useful when experimenting. 

Cheers,
Robin