Re: what do you use ragged-bottom for?

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/11/19 Keith E OHara <address@hidden>:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 02:15:54 -0800, Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> And btw, i think that it would be good if we had separate
>> stretchability and compressability properties.  For example, when i
>> have a SATB choral piece and vertical spacing is cramped, the
>> distances between staves should be compressed more than the distances
>> between systems (because it's very important that the systems remain
>> visually separate).  However, when there is a lot of vertical space,
>> it's the distances between systems that should stretch more than
>> distances between staves (as we don't want to have "airy" systems).
>> So, system-system distances should have high stretchability but low
>> compressability compared to staff-staff distances.
>
>
> LilyPond does have separate stretchability and compressibility.  Between
> lines and systems on the page, compressibility is the difference between
> basic-distance and minimum-distance.

Fascinating! I'm using Lilypond for a long time and she still surprises me ;-)
Thanks for explanation.

best,
Janek