Re: vertical spacing confusion

[Joe Neeman]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Mark Polesky <address@hidden> wrote:

I must not be understanding this correctly, because it seems
to me that 'minimum-distance is redundant.  If
'minimum-distance is less than 'space, it has no effect,
since IIUC 'space is only ever *stretched*, and never
*compressed*.

No, space is sometimes compressed:
 \version "2.13.35"

\paper {
between-system-spacing #'space = #300
}

\repeat unfold 25 { c'1 \break }