Re: Forcing page layout in Lilypond 2.6.4

[Graham Percival]

On 20-Jan-06, at 5:59 PM, Gianluca D. wrote:

> Is there any way to force Lilypond 2.6.4 to obliviously obey to \paper
> settings such as "betweensystemspace" or "betweensystempadding"?
> It's very frustrating the useless struggle against the intelligent 
> stubborness
> of lilypond internal layout when it continues putting more white space 
> on the
> page than staves even if you've just tried all the possible settings 
> in the
> \paper block.

Have you define raggedbottom = ##t  ?  (and raggedlastbottom = ##t).  
By default, lilypond will stretch staff lines to fill the page.

Cheers,
- Graham