meaningful, since the resulting distance will never be less than
@code{padding.}
+@c TODO: explain skylines somewhere and xref to it from here.
+
@item
@code{padding} -- the minimum required amount of unobstructed
-vertical whitespace between two items, measured in staff-spaces.
-This can be thought of as the minimum height of an unobstructed
-(invisible) rectangle that extends from the leftmost to the
-rightmost point of the combined items.
+vertical whitespace between the bounding boxes (or skylines) of
+the two items, measured in staff-spaces.
@item
@code{stretchability} -- a unitless measure of the dimension's
Installed Files:
@file{ly/paper-defaults-init.ly}.
+@knownissues
+Odd page numbers are always on the right. If you want the
+music to start on page 1 there must be a blank page on the back
+of the cover page so that page 1 is on the right hand side.
+
@node Miscellaneous \paper variables
@unnumberedsubsubsec Miscellaneous @code{\paper} variables