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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: top margin for subsequent pages
From:       Vaylor Trucks <vaylor () gmail ! com>
Date:       2021-03-30 20:36:06
Message-ID: CADvgZZu-hdD==bwWuP1NCFqLTdrBJqZPk+2wXb3J8HM-uyOW_A () mail ! gmail ! com
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That did it - thank you. From the documentation it seemed to me as if it
took a scalar value, not a list.

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 4:23 PM Xavier Scheuer <x.scheuer@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 at 22:06, Vaylor Trucks <vaylor@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you Xavier. I can't seem to figure out what I am doing wrong,
> though. If I put top-system-spacing in the paper block and give it any
> value at all, it actually reduces the space on the subsequent pages between
> the top of the page and the first system. I even tried setting it to #1000
> but got the same result. What am I missing?
>
> Hello,
>
> Are you using the syntax as explained in the section just before in the
> manual?
> Structure of flexible vertical spacing alists
>
> For instance
> top-system-spacing.basic-distance = #10
> or
> top-system-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 10)
>                           (minimum-distance . 8)
>                           (padding . 5))
>
> Cheers,
> Xavier
>
> --
> Xavier Scheuer <x.scheuer@gmail.com>
>
>

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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" \
style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small">That did it - thank you. From \
the documentation it seemed to me as if it took a scalar value, not a \
list.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On \
Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 4:23 PM Xavier Scheuer &lt;<a \
href="mailto:x.scheuer@gmail.com">x.scheuer@gmail.com</a>&gt; \
wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px \
0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, \
30 Mar 2021 at 22:06, Vaylor Trucks &lt;<a href="mailto:vaylor@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">vaylor@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Thank you Xavier. I \
can&#39;t seem to figure out what I am doing wrong, though. If I put \
top-system-spacing in the paper block and give it any value at all, it actually \
reduces the space on the subsequent pages between the top of the page and the first \
system. I even tried setting it to #1000 but got the same result. What am I \
missing?<br><div><br></div><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>Are you using the \
syntax as explained in the section just before in the manual?</div><div>Structure of \
flexible vertical spacing alists<br></div><div><br></div><div>For \
instance</div><div>top-system-spacing.basic-distance = \
#10<br></div><div>or</div><div>top-system-spacing = #&#39;((basic-distance . 10)<br>  \
(minimum-distance . 8)<br>                                       (padding . \
5))<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Xavier</div><div><br>--  \
<br>Xavier Scheuer &lt;<a href="mailto:x.scheuer@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">x.scheuer@gmail.com</a>&gt;</div><div><br></div></div> \
</blockquote></div>



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