Graham,

Have you tried putting each score inside it’s own \bookpart?

The documentation for ragged-last-bottom says:

ragged-last-bottom
 <> <>If this is set to false, then the last page, and the last page in each 
section created with a \bookpart block, will be vertically justified in the 
same way as the earlier pages.

If I’m reading that correctly, that means that unless each score is in a 
bookpart, ragged-last-bottom only applies to the very last page.

HTH
Ben

> On Feb 16, 2016, at 7:21 PM, Graham King <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 00:20 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> 
>> Graham King <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
>> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 19:15 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> > <snip>
>> >
>> >> 
>> >> However, your original posting stated:
>> >> 
>> >> > (Alternatively, if there's a way to make book-titling.ily do a
>> >> > ragged-last-bottom for each piece, that would save even more work).
>> >> 
>> >> Have you actually tried
>> >> 
>> >> \layout {
>> >>   ragged-last-bottom = ##t
>> >> }
>> >> 
>> >> before anything else?  That should be taken as starting point for all
>> >> following \layout blocks.
>> >> 
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help.
>> >
>> > I can't pretend to have a very firm grasp of scoping in lilypond, but I
>> > have now (re-)tried by putting this \layout block in various places,
>> > including before the \include for each piece.  I've also tried inserting
>> > it in Nicolas Sceaux's example at the bottom of the book-titling.ily
>> > code (snippet 368).  All without success, alas.
>> 
>> "before anything else" means before anything else.  Namely first.
>> Particularly before loading book-titling.ily.
>> 
> I've tried it at the top of the master file that I compile to create the PDF 
> containing all the pieces:
>   \version "2.19.32"
>   #(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f)
>   \layout {
>    ragged-last-bottom = ##t
> }
> The last page of each piece is still as if ragged-last-bottom were ##f.  The 
> final piece might be affected but I can't tell because it fills the last page 
> with systems anyway.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification, but I'm thinking we're flogging a dead horse in 
> trying to get book-titling.ily to do this.
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