Re: Having trouble with custom paper size/layout

[Germain G. Ivanoff-Trinadtzaty]

> Arvid wrote :

...
> Slightly off-topic, the spacing can get somewhat strange when
> typesetting multi-staff vocal music on minimal space, like in these
> cases.  Nothing I can easily reproduce in a minimal bug report, just
> a bit too wide at times.  Has anyone else seen this?  (That's with
> 2.11 and the new spacing stuff, of course.)
>

The same happenned to me.

I wanted to have a fixed size for all the systems, using some

  \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-6.0 . 0.0)

in the StaffGroup (well I know this is a "permissive" way).

And I found a strange behavior of ragged-bottom.
The snippet I provide is not minimal, but you can play with "paper" variables,

and see what happens.

 

Germain

 

 

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\version "2.11.26"
\include "english.ly"

 

\paper
{
 #(set-paper-size "a4")
 ragged-last-bottom=##t % last page not streched

 

 %% ragged-bottom:
 %% If set to ##t : pages are not tweaked.
 %% If set to ##f (default): it should strech pages.
 %% But it should only change space between systems.
 %% Here, it happens that the systems themselves are streched

 %% (by moving the last object of the StaffGroup).

 

% ragged-bottom=##t

 

 %% it seems that setting/unsetting or changing values of these,
 %% changes the behavior of ragged-bottom (especially for
 %% the first page) :

 

 between-system-space = #0.1
% between-system-padding = #0.1
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

 

\header
{
 title = "TEST"
 subtitle = "subtest"
 copyright = "free for public performance"
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

 

AltoWords = \lyricmode
{ 
 \repeat unfold 48 { di da doo da }
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

 

SopranoNotes = \relative c''
{
 \repeat unfold 48 { g a bf c}
}
AltoNotes = \relative c'
{
 \repeat unfold 48 { e f g a }
}
BassNotes = \relative c'
{
 \repeat unfold 48 { c c c f, }
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

 

\score
{
 \new StaffGroup
 <<
  \new Staff = Soprano
  <<
   \clef "G"
   \new Voice = "S" { \SopranoNotes }
   % #'(bottom up) default: ( -4 4 )
   % #'(après avant) % <0:plus bas % >0:plus haut
   \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-6.0 . 0.0)
%   \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'Y-extent = #'(-6.0 . 0.0)
  >>
  \new Lyrics = SW { s }

 

  \new Staff = Alto
  <<
   \clef "G"
   \new Voice = "A" { \AltoNotes }
   % #'(bottom up) default: ( -4 4 )
   % #'(après avant) % <0:plus bas % >0:plus haut
   \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-6.0 . 6.0)
%   \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'Y-extent = #'(-6.0 . 6.0)
  >>
  \new Lyrics = AW { s }

 

  \new Staff = Bass
  <<
   \clef "F"
   \new Voice = "B" { \BassNotes }
   % #'(bottom up) default: ( -4 4 )
   % #'(après avant) % <0:plus bas % >0:plus haut
   \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(0.0 . 6.0)
%   \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'Y-extent = #'(0.0 . 6.0)
  >>

 

  \context Lyrics = SW \lyricsto "S" { \AltoWords }
  \context Lyrics = AW \lyricsto "A" { \AltoWords }
 >>

 

 \layout
 {
  \context
  {
   \Score
   \override BarNumber #'padding = #2.0
  }
 } % layout
} % score
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