Changing the vertical distance between consecutive systems

If this has to be changed only once at the beginning of a piece, the simplest is to say


\def\bottomfacteur{8}


before invoking normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\debutmorceau. Note that normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\bottomfacteur is invoked to compute the dimension register normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\staffbotmarg whenever this register contains a zero dimension. The number (it must be a number) is multiplied by normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\Interligne and affected to normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\staffbotmarg.


If this has to be changed several times to meet page layout requirements with scores sometimes – but only sometimes – going very deep below the lowes staff of the systems, it is wiser to use normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\advancebottom, namely:


\advancebottom{10pt}


to advance the bottom margin register by that dimension at the next system line break.


REMARK : it is also possible to change the system top margin, i.e. normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\stafftopmarg between systems. Changing top and bottom margin add together but it may influence the position of the whole in the pages.