On Sun, 2014-03-30 at 09:37 +0100, Graham King wrote:

> I'm having a bit of a struggle with the spacing of systems on the
> final page of a 12-page score.  With 
> \paper { ragged-last-bottom = ##t }
> the final page has three systems crowded together, followed by a sea
> of whitespace, then the copyright line.  But with
> \paper { ragged-last-bottom = ##f }
> the spacing between systems is reasonable but the final system is too
> close to the copyright line.
> 
> I've tried various things, including: 
>       * changing the copyright line to \markup { \center-column { " "
>         \vspace #10 "some text" }} 
>       * changing \paper { system-system-spacing #'basic-distance =
>         #29 }


<chagrin> I just discovered a keyboard shortcut for "send" </chagrin>
continued...

      * and various other things that I've now forgotten!

Adding whitespace above the copyright line has no effect at all.
A small change in system-system-spacing ( #29 to #30 ) flips from no
effect to the same as ragged-last-bottom = ##f.

Before I start working blindly through all 4*8 = 32 permutations of the
"vertical spacing \paper" variables, please could some kind person give
me a hint?

thanks, in anticipation

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