Re: (2.13.x) bottom-system-spacing

[Joe Neeman]

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 13:08 +0200, Alexander Kobel wrote:
> Hi, Joe,
> 
> this is following a problem on -user which Kieren helped me to solve 
> (mostly). 
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-06/msg00309.html>
> I think I stumbled across an inconsistency of bottom-system-spacing, though:
> 
>  From the docs (NR 4.1.2), bottom-system-spacing should specify the 
> spacing to the top of the bottom margin.  From my experiments however, 
> it seems that only minimum-distance behaves this way, while padding 
> relates to the top of the /footer/ instead.

padding, in general, controls the amount of whitespace that must be
present. So padding in bottom-system-spacing controls the whitespace
between the bottom-most part of the bottom system and the top-most part
of the footer (even though the other bottom-system-spacing variables
refer to the middle line of the bottom staff and the top of the bottom
margin), just as padding in between-system-spacing controls the
whitespace between the bottom-most part of one system and the top-most
part of the next (even though the other between-system-spacing variables
refer to the middle lines of the appropriate staves). As far as I can
see, this is consistent with the way that all the spacing variables
work.

> By the way, is it correct and desired that foot-separation does not 
> exist anymore?

I did intend to remove it, yes. Is there some important functionality
that can't be obtained without it?


Cheers,
Joe