On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Sam Whited <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm having an issue where a short alternate ending on a piece results
> in the last staff being a bit short. I have not encountered this with
> other music, and when trying to put together a shorter minimal working
> example couldn't reproduce the problem. The song in question, however,
> is public domain (``Breakin' Up Christmas") so I've attached the
> original file (it's also available online [1] just in case this list
> doesn't accept attachments).
>
> I tried manually setting the measure length; but that doesn't seem to
> have fixed the problem. Any ideas? I'm using LP 2.17.97.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
> [1]: https://gist.github.com/SamWhited/a18a2c343847509c76f2


Your last chord in the \harmonies variable is still set at duration '2'. I
changed it to '4' and the space went away. Apparently lily was leaving
horizontal space for the invisible extra bit of the duration.

James Worlton
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