Re: (2.13.x) Alignment of topmost and bottommost staff of page

2010-06-18 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-06-16 16:33, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Alexander, Ugh, I just recognized that this actually is not arbitrary. \vspace creates a vertical space of argument /amount/ _multiplied by 3_. Which does not make sense to me - why * 3? - but okay, then I see why the value is about a third,

Re: (2.13.x) Alignment of topmost and bottommost staff of page

2010-06-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Alexander, is it possible to tell LilyPond to use the same vertical positions for all topmost and bottommost staff lines of different pages? Rephrased, can I say I know what I'm doing, ignore all vertical extents below the last staff lines of a page for vertical stretching, even if it

Re: (2.13.x) Alignment of topmost and bottommost staff of page

2010-06-16 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-06-16 13:16, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Alexander, is it possible to tell LilyPond to use the same vertical positions for all topmost and bottommost staff lines of different pages? Rephrased, can I say I know what I'm doing, ignore all vertical extents below the last staff lines of

Re: (2.13.x) Alignment of topmost and bottommost staff of page

2010-06-16 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-06-16 14:12, Alexander Kobel wrote: [...] finding the correct \vspace value in the footer far easier. (For some reason, the latter is not quite what I'd expect, e.g. for padding = -100 I need \vspace #31.5 to get a nice result for a two-line footer?!) Ugh, I just recognized that this

Re: (2.13.x) Alignment of topmost and bottommost staff of page

2010-06-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Alexander, Ugh, I just recognized that this actually is not arbitrary. \vspace creates a vertical space of argument /amount/ _multiplied by 3_. Which does not make sense to me - why * 3? - but okay, then I see why the value is about a third, +- foot-separation. Would this be fixed by

(2.13.x) Alignment of topmost and bottommost staff of page

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Kobel
Hi, all, is it possible to tell LilyPond to use the same vertical positions for all topmost and bottommost staff lines of different pages? Rephrased, can I say I know what I'm doing, ignore all vertical extents below the last staff lines of a page for vertical stretching, even if it