Re: Spacing of titles and text in a \book

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Ralph Palmer wrote
> Greetings -
> 
> I've been using LilyPond for a long time now, and *really* like it. I
> transcribe and transpose classical music and fiddle tunes for myself and
> friends.
> 
> I'm running LilyPond 2.19.81 with Frescobaldi 3.0.0 under Linux/Ubuntu
> 18.04.1.
> 
> I'm putting together a collection of fiddle tunes, and I've run into a
> spacing problem. I've tried to make a MWE, but it's still sort of long.
> 
> I'm having difficulties with the spacing. The title of the Collection and
> the title of the first tune are closer than I like, and the distance
> between a line of text after a tune and the title of the next tune is
> close
> enough that it sometimes looks like the text goes with the following tune.
> Any suggestions for an easy, preferably \book -wide solution?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> 
> Ralph
> 
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> Ralph Palmer
> Brattleboro, VT
> USA

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Hi Ralph,

For your first problem, I'd suggest to play with (in the \paper block):
markup-system-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 20)
                             (padding . 2)
                             (stretchability . 10))



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