Re: Orchestral score: bottom staff position

[David Kastrup]

Gilberto Agostinho <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Kieren,
>
>
> Kieren MacMillan wrote
>> This looks fine to me:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> \paper {
>>   ragged-bottom = ##f
>>   last-bottom-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 0) (minimum-distance . 0)
>> (padding . 0) (stretchability . 0))
>> }
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> What is the problem you’re seeing?
>
> You are totally right, this works as expected (sorry, I read too quickly
> your first message and I swore you wrote ragged-last-bottom instead of
> last-bottom-spacing). This, for instance, fixes the LSR snippet before.
>
> But on my orchestral score, the last staff still keep moving up and down,
> and this is due to the fact that the music there is more complex! So there
> are dynamics, low notes, sometimes there is a whole page without a note. I
> believe LilyPond is taking in consideration the distance between the lowest
> grob, and not the staff itself.
>
> So the question would be: is there a way of locking the last staff in place,
> regardless of the music it has?

I should think that using a large negative padding and/or
minimum-distance would create constant positions for the last system, at
the cost of potential overlaps/off-paper stuff.

-- 
David Kastrup