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Dubious recommendation about ragged-last-bottom in spacing.itely


From: Pavel Roskin
Subject: Dubious recommendation about ragged-last-bottom in spacing.itely
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:32:38 -0500

Hello!

There is a strange suggestion in Documentation/notation/spacing.itely:

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@item ragged-last-bottom
@funindex ragged-last-bottom

If set to false, systems will spread vertically down the last
page.  Pieces that amply fill two pages or more should have this
set to true.
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I believe the opposite should be suggested.  Large scores should set
ragged-last-bottom to false.  For a large score, it's easy to fill a
whole number of pages without much distortion.  Doing so increases
readability of the piece without increasing the number of the page
turns.

I checked some scores on imslp.org, and I don't see many "ragged
bottoms" at the end of many serious works.

I suggest changing "true" to "false".  I believe it was meant that way
by the author of the text.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin



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