Re: Very inconsistent vertical spacing from lilypond book and LaTeX

[Robert Hickman]

Hi David,

The .tex file contains the following (a snippet of), The idea about it
being where a new paragraph or line starts seems to make sense as the
added space seems to be about 1em.

\vspace{-0em}\Ssubsection{Scale}\vspace{-0em}
{%
\parindent 0pt
\noindent
\ifx\preLilyPondExample \undefined
\else
  \expandafter\preLilyPondExample
\fi
\def\lilypondbook{}%
\input{ce/lily-6d98c8ee-systems.tex}
\ifx\postLilyPondExample \undefined
\else
  \expandafter\postLilyPondExample
\fi
}

\vspace{-0.8em}\Ssubsection{Thirds}\vspace{-0em}
{%
\parindent 0pt
\noindent
\ifx\preLilyPondExample \undefined
\else
  \expandafter\preLilyPondExample
\fi
\def\lilypondbook{}%
\input{ec/lily-01f558b3-systems.tex}
\ifx\postLilyPondExample \undefined
\else
  \expandafter\postLilyPondExample
\fi
}

\vspace{-0.8em}\Ssubsection{Fourths}\vspace{-0em}
{%
\parindent 0pt
\noindent
\ifx\preLilyPondExample \undefined
\else
  \expandafter\preLilyPondExample
\fi
\def\lilypondbook{}%
\input{75/lily-95458ceb-systems.tex}
\ifx\postLilyPondExample \undefined
\else
  \expandafter\postLilyPondExample
\fi
}

\vspace{-0.8em}\Ssubsection{Fifths}\vspace{-0em}
{%
\parindent 0pt
\noindent
\ifx\preLilyPondExample \undefined
\else
  \expandafter\preLilyPondExample
\fi
\def\lilypondbook{}%
\input{2f/lily-cee1d442-systems.tex}
\ifx\postLilyPondExample \undefined
\else
  \expandafter\postLilyPondExample
\fi
}

\vspace{-0.8em}\Ssubsection{Sixths}\vspace{-0em}
{%
\parindent 0pt
\noindent
\ifx\preLilyPondExample \undefined
\else
  \expandafter\preLilyPondExample
\fi
\def\lilypondbook{}%
\input{05/lily-bdd1bc6c-systems.tex}
\ifx\postLilyPondExample \undefined
\else
  \expandafter\postLilyPondExample
\fi
}

On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 19:56, David Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Thu 21 May 2020 at 18:40:53 (+0100), Robert Hickman wrote:
> >
> > I'm helping my partner create a book of interval exercises, and I'm
> > getting very inconsistent vertical spacing coming from lilypond-book,
> > here is an example:
> >
> > https://files.robehickman.com/problem.pdf
> >
> > Weird thing is that this is very inconsistent between pages, and I
> > have verified there is no excess space in the music images. LaTeX
> > seems to be stretching white space erratically.
>
> No idea what's in your .tex file. Perhaps the larger spaces are where
> LaTeX thinks a new paragraph starts. The mere presence or absence of
> blank lines between the figures can affect/control that.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>