Re: Spacing

[Bill Mooney]

You wrote...
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I just built a hymn under 2.14.2 using the Hymn structure from Learning 
Lilypond 2.12.3 secn 3.2.3 "Voices & Vocals". The structure is 
unaltered, except that I have added a \version and a \header (and there 
are only 2 vv iso 4!).

I find that the first system is kind of jammed up against the header 
line giving the poet and composer, and I'd like some more vertical white 
space in there.

Secondly, the whole thing is in 3 systems, with room for a fourth, so I 
also have some spare real estate on the page.

What directives, commands, instructions etc should I be looking at to 
put a little more "air" into its appearance?

Rgds, GFStC.
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There was a query about spacing sometime recently with a response by 
Reinhold Kainhofer who has a clever site which allows one to generate 
empty music score sheets in a variety of layouts.
From one of these I made use of the following:-
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\paper {
        left-margin = 20\mm
        right-margin = 10\mm
        % top-margin = 10\mm
        bottom-margin = 10\mm
 % oddHeaderMarkup = ##f
%  evenHeaderMarkup = ##f

  pages=4 %fiddle this to suit
  systems-per-page=3 %fiddle this to suit
  ragged-bottom=##f
  ragged-last-bottom=##f
  ragged-last=##f
  ragged-right=##f

  top-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #7
  top-markup-spacing #'basic-distance = #5
  last-bottom-spacing #'basic-distance = #10
  markup-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #7

  top-system-spacing #'stretchability = #60
  top-markup-spacing #'stretchability = #40
  last-bottom-spacing #'stretchability = #60

  markup-system-spacing #'stretchability = #60
  system-system-spacing #'stretchability = #40
}
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By fiddling with the number of systems per page and the number of pages, 
and some of the other values it is possible to make a very pleasing 
layout from your existing file...
It would pay to read this paper block in conjunction with the LP manuals 
to fully understand what is being done!

Hope this helps

Regards
Bill