Thanks for your help. I'd had gotten good page fill and SCORE like output by
being able to manually fix the staff distances. I might stick with the
earlier version for now.
With the vertical-manual-setting - can this be set once for the entire
piece? At the moment you have to set it for every system break. Setting this
once for the entire piece or until a different setting is specified would be
good.
You can set it in the layout block:
\version "2.10.0"
\layout {
\context {
\Score
\override NonMusicalPaperColumn
#'line-break-system-details = #'((alignment-offsets . (#f #f -30)))
}
}