On Sun, 2014-03-30 at 12:49 +0200, Thomas Morley wrote:
> Hi Graham,
>
> 2014-03-30 11:23 GMT+02:00 Graham King <[email protected]>:
> > On Sun, 2014-03-30 at 09:46 +0100, Graham King wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> That's the way ragged-last-bottom = ##t should work!
Yes, understood. I just meant to set out the starting point and explain
why this wouldn't do.
>
> > 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:
> >
>
> Something like that is the quick'n dirty thingy I always use:
>
> > changing the copyright line to \markup { \center-column { " " \vspace #10
> > "some text" }}
>
> [...]
> > Well, the inevitable happened! After a couple of hours of experimentation,
> > I swallowed my pride and asked the list, and then almost immediately found
> > something that worked:
> > \paper {
> > last-bottom-spacing =
> > #'((basic-distance . 12)
> > (minimum-distance .12)
> > (padding . 12)
> > (stretchability . 12))
> > }
>
>
> The problem (at least for me) is that last-bottom-spacing affects the
> bottom-spacing on _every_ page, not only the last.
> I'm not aware of any other command affecting only the bottom-spacing
> of the last page.
>
> Btw, please always post a compilable example, at least for doing experiments.
Yes, I dreaded that question. Mea culpa. This score \include's two
scores plus Nicolas Sceaux's book-titling.ily.
> Something like:
>
> \paper {
> %% spread the systems over last page
> ragged-last-bottom = ##f
> %% works on every page!
> last-bottom-spacing =
> #'((basic-distance . 12)
> (minimum-distance .12)
> (padding . 12)
> (stretchability . 12))
> %% adding \box for better visibility
> oddFooterMarkup =
> \markup \box \fill-line {
> " " \on-the-fly #last-page \fromproperty #'header:tagline " "
> }
> evenFooterMarkup = \oddFooterMarkup
> }
>
> \header {
> %% workaround for adding space above the tagline
> tagline = \markup \column { \vspace #9 "some text" }
> }
>
> \repeat unfold 40 { c1 \break }
>
>
> Cheers,
> Harm
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