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

2010-10-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Coulon
Now I am very close to what I want by saying: \centerline{~} % and nothing more \startpiece [...] \Stoppiece \divide\parskip by 2 \vskip\parskip etc. Jean-Pierre Coulon cou...@obs-nice.fr ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org

[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