On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Keith E OHara <k-oh...@oco.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:02:52 -0700, Keith E OHara wrote: > > The attached example is admittedly not tiny, >> > > Feeling guilty about that, I stayed up a bit past my bedtime and found that > extremely large stretchability does have effect. > > \version "2.13.37" > \paper { last-bottom-spacing #'stretchability = #200 } > > m = \repeat unfold 40 r2 > \score { > << \new Staff \m \new Staff \m \new Staff \m > \new Staff \m \new Staff \m \new Staff \m > \new Staff \m \new Staff \m \new Staff \m \new Staff \m >> > } > > Given that stretchability defaults to be equal to space (typically 2-8 > staff spaces) a value of 200 seems extreme, but that is what it takes to let > the springs between the staves compress a little. > The default space is 9 (in default-next-staff-spacing), so if you set last-bottom-spacing stretchability to 25 (as you did originally), then it will only want to stretch about 3 times as much as the distance between staves. Since you have 10 staves and each one will stretch 1/3 as much as the bottom space, the system will actually stretch about 3 times as much as the bottom space. Since the system was bigger to begin with _and_ it stretches much more, it will end up almost filling the page. Cheers, Joe _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond