Re: Spacing Issue

[Urs Liska]

Am 26.02.2015 um 09:07 schrieb Joe Lowry:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a relatively inexperienced Lily Pond user, I need to have a page break
> after the first page (first movement) of my piece (for duo percussion).  I
> am using the \break command after the last note that I want on the first
> page and I am properly getting a line break.  The problem is that I only
> have two systems of music in the first page, and I need them to take up only
> half the page so that I can insert text into the bottom part of the page.
> Currently, Lily Pond's automatic spacing system is formatting the two
> systems on my first page to take up the whole page.  Clearly, I need to
> override the system spacing logic somehow, but I need to only do it for the
> first page, which is in its own score block, without ruining the other pages
> of the score.  I haven't yet found any particularly helpful documentation
> online -- I'd love any ideas or code snippets I can get!
>
> Thanks

First: you can place your scores inside \bookpart {} sections, which 
will take care of the page breaks automatically.
if your first score contains less than one page and the second one more 
than one page this should be all you need for your case (AFAICS).

Second: you can place \paper {} sections in each of the bookparts, 
affecting them individually.

Have a \paper {} section on the first page, containing one or more of

  ragged-bottom = ##t
  ragged-last-bottom = ##t

and experiment with these variables (##t/##f, present or not) until you 
get what you need for your given document.
These and the other paper variables are documented here: 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/paper-size-and-automatic-scaling#fixed-vertical-spacing-_005cpaper-variables

HTH
Urs

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