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4.4.1 Flexible vertical spacing within systems
Three separate mechanisms control the flexible vertical spacing within systems, one for each of the following categories:
- ungrouped staves,
- grouped staves (staves within a staff group such as
ChoirStaff, etc.), and - non-staff lines (such as
Lyrics,ChordNames, etc.).
The height of each system is determined in two steps. First, all of the staves are spaced according to the amount of space available. Then, the non-staff lines are distributed between the staves.
Note that the spacing mechanisms discussed in this section only
control the vertical spacing of staves and non-staff lines within
individual systems. The vertical spacing between separate
systems, scores, markups, and margins is controlled by
\paper variables, which are discussed in
Flexible vertical spacing \paper variables.