[TeX-Music] Vertical distribution of systems.

2010-10-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Coulon
I have a piano score with only 4 systems. I do not like the vertical distribution I obtain because the first and last systems are stuck to the vertical boundaries of the page. Instead, I would like the space above the first system and below the last system to be half the space between

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical distribution of systems.

2010-10-14 Thread David Allsopp
Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: I have a piano score with only 4 systems. I do not like the vertical distribution I obtain because the first and last systems are stuck to the vertical boundaries of the page. Instead, I would like the space above the first system and below the last system to be

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical distribution of systems.

2010-10-14 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Jean-Pierre Coulon cou...@obs-nice.fr wrote: I have a piano score with only 4 systems. I do not like the vertical distribution I obtain because the first and last systems are stuck to the vertical boundaries of the page. Instead, I would like the space above the first system and below the

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical distribution of systems.

2010-10-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Coulon
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Robin Fairbairns wrote: what's the concept of ugly in a tex source? Simply the need for my calculating the half of the distance between systems before I know this distance! IMO trial-and-error is even uglier! instead: \leavevmode\vskip0pt plus2fill \lineskip0pt

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical distribution of systems.

2010-10-14 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Jean-Pierre Coulon cou...@obs-nice.fr wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Robin Fairbairns wrote: what's the concept of ugly in a tex source? Simply the need for my calculating the half of the distance between systems before I know this distance! IMO trial-and-error is even uglier! instead:

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical distribution of systems.

2010-10-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Coulon
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, David Allsopp wrote: Robin Fairbairns wrote: Jean-Pierre Coulon cou...@obs-nice.fr wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Robin Fairbairns wrote: what's the concept of ugly in a tex source? Simply the need for my calculating the half of the distance between systems before I

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical distribution of systems.

2010-10-14 Thread David Allsopp
Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, David Allsopp wrote: Robin Fairbairns wrote: Jean-Pierre Coulon cou...@obs-nice.fr wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Robin Fairbairns wrote: what's the concept of ugly in a tex source? Simply the need for my calculating the half of the

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical distribution of systems.

2010-10-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Coulon
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, David Allsopp wrote: Incidentally, why do you want fixed spacing at the bottom of the score? I want - in the vertical direction - half_space/system/space/system/space/system/space/system/half_space At present this fixed spacing is my ugly way to work around the lack of

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical distribution of systems.

2010-10-14 Thread David Allsopp
Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, David Allsopp wrote: Incidentally, why do you want fixed spacing at the bottom of the score? I want - in the vertical direction - half_space/system/space/system/space/system/space/system/half_space At present this fixed spacing is my ugly

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical distribution of systems.

2010-10-14 Thread Andre Van Ryckeghem
Incidentally the first \vskip does not do its job. I think the space is eaten up by earlyer space generated by the system, use \vglue2cm instead ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical distribution of systems.

2010-10-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Coulon
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, David Allsopp wrote: How does putting \musicparskip before \startpiece and \vskip\parskip before \eject (and no other \vskip's) look to you? The bottom is acceptable, but I see no addtional space on the top. But perharps you're pointing out the right direction. Does

[TeX-Music] Space between pagenumber and the first stave

2010-10-14 Thread Hermann Hinsch
May be my question is related to what just is discussed. I use M-Tx for my typesetting. If the last page consists of fewer staves than possible the space between the pagenumber and the first staff is smaller than on full pages. Any suggestion? Hermann