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4.5.5 Line width
The most basic settings influencing the spacing are indent and
line-width. They are set in the \layout block. They
control the indentation of the first line of music, and the lengths of
the lines.
If ragged-right is set to true in the \layout block, then
systems ends at their natural horizontal length, instead of being spread
horizontally to fill the whole line. This is useful for
short fragments, and for checking how tight the natural spacing is.
The normal default setting is false, but if the score has only one
system the default value is true.
The option ragged-last is similar to ragged-right, but
only affects the last line of the piece. No restrictions are put on
that line. The result is similar to formatting text paragraphs. In a
paragraph, the last line simply takes its natural horizontal length.
\layout {
indent = #0
line-width = #150
ragged-last = ##t
}
See also
Snippets: Spacing.
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