Re: NR 4.1.4 ragged bottom and vertical spacing

[Simon Albrecht]

On 11.12.2015 13:28, Federico Bruni wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Can you please explain this paragraph taken from here?
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-paper-variables 
>
>
> %%%%%
> 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
> %%%%%%
>
> Does it mean that it will take the largest value between those three?

Yes.

> I read the french translation to see how it was interpreted and it 
> seems to suggest that the distance is the _sum_ of the three values 
> (if I understand correctly.. my french is very basic).

To me it reads like an appropriate rendition. French ‘maximum’ would 
exactly correspond to English ‘largest’.

Yours, Simon