Re: Orchestral score

[Thies Albrecht]

Hi Jeremiah!

I'm still running v2.8.X and I don't know what has changed since. 
Nevertheless I'm going to show you how I handle score layout. Perhaps my 
logical approach can give you the right clou...

Reilly schrieb:
> > I have a score with 22 staves, one system to a page.
> >
> > I want Lilypond to layout the score so that the the score "fills" the
> > page. It would be very nice if the first staff and last staff on each
> > page lined up when laid side by side. In other words, I want Lilypond
> > to stretch the interstaff spacing appropriately for each page...
When it comes to score layout I spread staves within a system manually 
like follows:

  % -------------
  % begin of code
  % -------------

\score {
  \context StaffGroup = "orchestra" {
    <<
      \context Staff = "instr1" {
        % here the vertical-extent is set
        \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'Y-extent = '(-6 . 6)
        % description see below
        \firstPageCorr
        \music1
      }
      \context Staff = "instr2" {
        % here the vertical-extent is set - '(-6 . 6) doesn't have to be
        % the same as before
        \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'Y-extent = '(-6 . 6)
        \music2
      }
      ... (and so on)
    >>
  }
}

  % -------------
  %  end of code
  % -------------

I increase/decrease the vertical-extent for every staff by varying '(-6 
. 6) until the system fits the whole page. Now I've got pages with 
equally spaced staves that look nice.

Problem: The first page only holds the title, the first system on the 
following page.

To solve this I reduce the overall extent of the first system. It looks 
like this:

  % -------------
  % begin of code
  % -------------

\dummyvoice = {
  \overrideProperty
    #"Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn"
    #'line-break-system-details
    #'((fixed-alignment-extra-space . -15))

}

  % -------------
  %  end of code
  % -------------

Hoope it will help and kind regards
Thies