Re: enhancement request, page-breakers account for requested system spacing

[Keith E OHara]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:26:26 -0700, Joe Neeman <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Keith E OHara <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Current behavior (2.12 and 2.13) is to populate pages with as many systems
> > as will fit with tight spacing, meaning that only the last page has enough
> > space to honor the requested system-system-spacing #'space.
>
> You're too late. This was already fixed as part of bug 1285, so it will
> appear in 2.13.38.

This aspect of the 1285 fix (listening to 'space) did not make it into the 
2.13.38 alpha release, judging by its behavior.

That is,  { \clef bass \repeat unfold 25 {s1 \break} }  still squeezes staves 
on first page 8 staffspaces apart ('minimum-distance) while the second page is 
spaced at 12 ('space).

I will assume the change will come in a future release, and until then continue 
the workaround of copying 'space to 'minimum-distance :
\paper { page-breaking-system-system-spacing = #'(
  (space . 12) (minimum-distance . 12) (padding . 1)) }