Lots have happened since version 2.3.11, especially when it comes to the page layout, so I definitely recommend to upgrade before you spend too much effort on tuning the performance of 2.3.11.
Regarding your earlier questions on verticalExtent, you should visualize each context (Staff or Lyrics) in a rectangular box. The vertical extents of that box are determined by the verticalExtent, minimumVerticalExtent and extraVerticalExtent properties but also by by the contents of the context. For example, if you have a very high note with several ledger lines, it will increase the upper extent of the box (unless you have hard coded the extent using verticalExtent, which normally is a bad idea). The two numbers of the properties is just the vertical coordinate of the lower and upper bounds, relative to the center of the Staff or the base line of the lyrics, respectively.
These *VerticalExtent properties are mainly useful to adjust the spacing between different staves of a score or between the staves and the lyrics. If you want to adjust the spacing between the full score lines, you should use the betweensystemspace and/or betweensystempadding properties (they used to be called something completely different in version 2.2 and earlier).
/Mats
Peter B. Steiger wrote:
I finished that SATB score I was keying in last week when I said I had trouble getting the vertical spacing to work correctly, and now I see the problem. It looks like Lilypond (2.3.11) is dividing total systems by number of pages to try to force an equal number of systems per page... so when I had four systems (combined treble + bass clefs) it put two on each page; now that I have six it puts three on each page.
How can I change this behavior so it fits the maximum possible (per my Staff.verticalExtent values) on the first and subsequent pages, and just leaves the last page blank after the last line of music?
I downloaded 2.3.22 last night, but I was getting all kinds of errors relating to pcm files. Probably my own mistake installing it, but that's a subject for another email.
------- Peter B. Steiger Cheyenne, WY
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