Re: problems with betweensystempadding

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > The `betweensystempadding' property doesn't work as expected if
> > there are page breaks.  In the example below, the first page isn't
> > filled as it should be.  Increase `linewidth' to 40\mm (so that
> > only a single page is used), and you get a correct result.
> 
> This is is probably related to a hack, which doesn't spread the
> systems if the page is very empty.  Can you tell me what the proper
> solution should be?
> 
> 1. as is, but with a different threshold (now, the page isn't
>    stretched if more than 1/3 is empty)
> 
> 2. have raggedbottomlast switched on by default
> 
> 3. have raggedbottom switched on by default
> 
> I want to prevent that a score with only two systems is formatted
> with one at the top of the page, and one at the bottom.

I prefer 2.  Item 1. (which seems to be the current algorithm) gives
very strange results.

Anyway, I really would like to have this user-controllable, something
like the equivalent to `\hspace 2cm plus 0.5cm minus 2mm' or `\hspace
2cm plus 1fil' as an argument to `betweensystemspace'.


    Werner