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Re: what do you use ragged-bottom for?
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Trevor Daniels |
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Re: what do you use ragged-bottom for? |
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Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:04:34 -0000 |
Keith E OHara wrote Saturday, November 16, 2013 4:00 AM
> So for what kind of music do you use ragged-bottom=##t ?
I don't use it at all (I set mainly short SATB + piano, occationally
orchestral).
> The manual (currently) suggests it for scores, where maybe just two systems
> fit on a page; but then the systems are closer than they need to be on the
> looser pages. To give adaptable space at the bottom of the page, it is
> better to use \paper{ last-bottom-spacing #'stretchability = 120 }
It may have been useful for purposes such as this (two systems per page) before
flexible spacing was implemented. Flexible spacing is much better, although
difficult to grasp initially.
> Sometimes we do want fixed vertical spacing of the music on the page; we can
> make the 'minimum-distance as big as 'basic-distance, in all the spacing
> settings, but that user-interface is difficult.
Yes.
> Maybe ragged-bottom=##t should continue to always under-fill pages, as it
> does now?
It may be useful as a speed-up aid during the data-entry/checking phase in
longer pieces, but I don't know what the time saving would be.
Trevor