Re: negative distance between systems

[Keith E OHara]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:01:22 -0700, zbigb wrote:

> I tried modifying all of the vertical spacing snippets I could find, but
> didn't get any closer,

The link in your message was to the manual for the development version 2.13, and the 
vertical spacing system is changing in that version.  Instead, 
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Vertical-spacing-between-systems#Vertical-spacing-between-systems>

I do not understand why doubling between-system-space quadruples the spacing, 
but by trial and error :

\version "2.12.3"
\paper {
  between-system-space = 16 % I want exactly 4 staff-spaces
  between-system-padding = #-9
}
{ \repeat unfold 80 { c' d' e' f' } ]

(The development version looks more sane in this area, so this should become 
easier in the forthcoming version 2.14 )