4.6.2 Changing spacing

From the output of annotate-spacing, we can see which margins we may wish to alter.

Other than margins, there are a few other options to save space:

• You may tell LilyPond to place systems as close together as possible (to fit as many systems as possible onto a page), but then to space those systems out so that there is no blank space at the bottom of the page.

       \paper {
         between-system-padding = #0.1
         between-system-space = #0.1
         ragged-last-bottom = ##f
         ragged-bottom = ##f
       }
  

• You may force the number of systems (i.e., if LilyPond wants to typeset some music with 11 systems, you could force it to use 10).

       \paper {
         system-count = #10
       }
  

• Avoid (or reduce) objects which increase the vertical size of a system. For example, volta repeats (or alternate repeats) require extra space. If these repeats are spread over two systems, they will take up more space than one system with the volta repeats and another system without.

  Another example is moving dynamics which ‘stick out’ of a system, as in the second bar here:

            
            e4 c g\f c
            \override DynamicText #'extra-offset = #'( -2.2 . 2.0)
            e4 c g\f c
       

  

• Alter the horizontal spacing via SpacingSpanner. See Changing horizontal spacing, for more details. Here's an example first showing the default behavior:

            
            \score {
              \relative c'' {
                g4 e e2 |
                f4 d d2 |
                c4 d e f |
                g4 g g2 |
                g4 e e2 |
              }
            }
       

  

  and now with common-shortest-duration increased from the value of 1/4 (a quarter note is the most common in this example) to 1/2:

            
            \score {
              \relative c'' {
                g4 e e2 |
                f4 d d2 |
                c4 d e f |
                g4 g g2 |
                g4 e e2 |
              }
              \layout {
                \context {
                  \Score
                  \override SpacingSpanner
                            #'common-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 2)
                }
              }
            }
       

  

  Note that this override cannot be modified dynamically, so it must always be placed in a \context{..} block so that it applies to the whole score.

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