"Anthony Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well it was ... then I copied the example in the manual and it blows up > on me ... > > I'm trying to globally over-ride the next-padding property to squeeze > more systems on a page (ie get the entire piece on one page and not have > an orphan system on page 2). There's an example in the manual about > using \outputProperty which I've copied but it refuses to work. > > \outputProperty #"Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn" > #'line-break-system-details #'((next-padding . 5)) > > I've tried it in the \score context, the \paper and the \layout context. > It blows up every time with "unrecognized escaped string > outputProperty". What am I doing wrong?
You're trying to set a padding property for the whole book, with an operator which aims at tweaking a single system padding. Have you read carefuly chapter 11 "Spacing issues" in the manual before asking here? More precisely: 11.3.3 Vertical spacing between systems (does this title rings a bell?) http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond/Vertical-spacing-between-systems.html The paper property to tune are between-system-padding and between-system-space. \paper { between-system-padding = 5 between-system-space = 0.1 annotate-spacing = ##t ragged-bottom=##t } \repeat unfold 4 << \new Staff { g'1 \break } \new Staff c' >> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
