Re: page-spacing-staff-group-hara-kiri.ly

[Joe Neeman]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:33 PM, James Bailey
<address@hidden>wrote:

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> On Oct 12, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Joe Neeman wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:28 AM, James Bailey <
> address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but when I compile
>> page-spacing-staff-group-hara-kiri.ly, I get different output. This
>> doesn't have the same spacing between the systems that the image the pdf
>> docs has. The web output is the same, but the pdf document shows what I
>> imagine to be correct.
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> It's the difference between lilypond-book and lilypond output (ie. whether
> lilypond does the whole page layout or whether it delegates that to latex).
> If you put a \book{} around the whole example then it should space the same
> in lilypond and lilypond-book.
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> Cheers,
> Joe
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> Does mean that all of the regression tests should be compiled inside a
> \book context?
>

If you really care about the inter-system distances, then yes. Many of the
page-breaking and page-spacing regtests have \book for exactly this reason.
In general, though, it doesn't matter.


> I assumed that everthing after the "Start cut-&-pastable-section" would
> generate the output described, should I start with the ly-snippet instead?
>

If you process the whole snippet, I think you also need some extra options
to lilypond (like -dbackend=eps), but I don't know what they all are.

Cheers,
Joe