Re: How to control spacing between scores in a bookpart?

[Simon Albrecht]

Hi Stephen,

first of all: please keep conversation on-list, except if privacy is 
actually necessary.


On 22.07.2017 23:49, Stephen Nesbitt wrote:
> I actually did see the score-system-spacing in the 
> flexible-vertical-spacing-paper at 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-paper-variables, 
> but was unable to get it to work - or more accurately - get it to do 
> anything.
>
> I tried again adding score-system-spacing.basic-distance = 10\cm to 
> the \paper block and now its working. I suspect that I don't really 
> understand what a staff-space is and the values I used didn't result 
> in any change. Changing to centimeters did something.

Did ‘something’? Did it actually insert 10 cm of space?
Maybe try again without the \cm, but with a (ridiculously) large number 
like 50 to see if it actually does anything. Staff-spaces, the distance 
between two normal staff-lines, are the basic measuring unit in 
LilyPond. This allows scaling everything along with the music.

> Also note that I think there is a typo in the example given with the 
> update one key-value example shown as 
> *system-system-spacing.basic-distance = #8*. Shouldn't it be 
> *score-system-spacing.basic-distance = #8?*

system-system-spacing is a thing as well, and all those flexible 
vertical spacing properties work basically the same, only with different 
values.

HTH, Simon