Re: Can system-system spacing be altered within a \score block?

[Pierre Perol-Schneider]

Oh no, that would cause errors for sure.

So, you'll have some work for sure...

Cheers,

Pierre

(PS. don't forget to reply to the list)

Le ven. 1 mai 2020 à 17:19, Brent Annable <address@hidden> a écrit :

Hey Pierre,

Aha, I see an unfortunate coincidence has muddied the waters a little. By pure chance, the three sample files I sent you contain unique variable names for all the music, which allows them to be included in the master file without a problem. But the whole project contains around 70 such files, many with multiple score blocks, and all using exactly the same variable names (rightOne, rightOneAlt, rightOneAltII, etc.) So while your solution does work, what I am looking for is one that allows me to include all the files as they are without having to rename all the variables first.

Sorry for the mess up. Do you have any ideas for if the music variables in the three files all have the same names?

Brent.

On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 23:06, Pierre Perol-Schneider <address@hidden> wrote:

Brent, please find herewith the modified files.

Cheers,

Pierre

Le ven. 1 mai 2020 à 12:57, Brent Annable <address@hidden> a écrit :

Hi Pierre,

Thanks for your answer. I did try that, but because of my file structure it doesn't work. As soon as I use \bookpart anywhere in my master file, the output is corrupted for some reason -- probably because I'm including multiple files that use higher-level expressions and variables with the same names. I could reorganize everything, but that's precisely the hassle I'm trying to avoid.

I enclose a few files as an example. What I want to do is bring the systems of 'All things bright and beautiful' closer together on the page. If I do ragged-bottom = ##t they are too close together; I could insert some \vspaces to move the whole piece down a bit, but the systems remain too bunched-up for my liking. If I put the coding for that section into a \bookpart block, the output is immediately corrupted, so I can't use a separate \paper block to achieve what I want.

Any ideas on the best way to solve this?

Regards,

Brent.

On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 16:09, Pierre Perol-Schneider <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Brent,

You can put the paper bloc in a bookpart, e.g.:

\version "2.20.0"

music = { \repeat unfold 100 s1 }

\book {
  \bookpart {
    \score { \music }
    \header { piece = \markup\bold\fontsize #5 \fill-line { "15" } }
    \paper { system-system-spacing.basic-distance = 15 }
  }
  \bookpart {
    \score { \music }
    \header { piece = \markup\bold\fontsize #5 \fill-line { "20" } }
    \paper { system-system-spacing.basic-distance = 20 }
  }
  \bookpart {
    \score { \music }
    \header { piece = \markup\bold\fontsize #5 \fill-line { "30" } }
    \paper { system-system-spacing.basic-distance = 30 }
  }
}

HTH,

Cheers,

Pierre

Le ven. 1 mai 2020 à 05:32, Brent Annable <address@hidden> a écrit :

Hi all,

I'm currently putting a whole bunch of separate pieces together into one document, and occasionally I want to manually adjust the distance between systems in one piece without affecting the spacing in the others. Because of the file structure I've chosen, I can't include any top-level instructions in \paper blocks without affecting all the other pieces in the document. Is there a way of including an instruction within a \score block (or below), or some other way to help adjust between-system spacing?

Regards,

Brent.