Re: Vertical spacing on first of several pages

[Ralph Palmer]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Simon Albrecht
<address@hidden>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> when working on a score a few days ago I noticed that I would prefer (and
> have often seen in printed scores) the staves on the first page (if they
> are fewer than normal due to headers) to be stacked at the bottom of the
> page with normal distances rather than have them spread over the entire
> page with overlarge distances.
> Presuming that this won’t be made standard behaviour, it would require a
> command like the \vfill command in TeX, which, after the content has been
> spread over the pages, inserts as much vertical space as fits on the page.
> Of course, one might just insert \markup \vspace #x and adjust it by trial
> and error, but it would be more complicated and less elegant.
> Do you agree that this is a good idea?
> Greetings
>
> Simon


Simon - this has been submitted as issue 2734 :
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2734

Ralph