Re: Keeping original system distances

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 01:50 -0800, Calvin Ransom wrote:
> I am attempting to conserve the spacing when combining two scores
> together. I want score one on one page and score two on the next page
> but when I use \pageBreak it changes the spacing of the systems in an
> unwanted way, is there a way for me to prevent this from happening?
> I am using the \include command to combine multiple scores into one
> document,
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Calvin Ransom
> British Columbia

Curiously, I tried to ask what I think is the same question today, but
my email hasn't got to the list.
Here was my question (I'm calling the "two scores" two movements, in
LilyPond each movement in a piece is one \score{} block):

In a multi-movement piece with each movement starting on a new page it
happens by default that if one movement is very short it will be spread
out to fill the page. This can be difficult to read as the systems are
so far apart. I would like to tell LilyPond to limit the space between
systems to avoid this (leaving blank space below the movement).
I've come across page-limit-inter-system-space but can't find the
documentation for it.
I've been testing various values in the following code without success.

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\version "2.20.0"
music = {\repeat unfold 30 c'' }
\paper {
         page-limit-inter-system-space = ##t
         page-limit-inter-system-space-factor = #0.2
       }
\score {
        \music 
}
\pageBreak
\score {
        \music     
}

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Can someone suggest how to make these two movements look the same on
the page?

Richard Shann