Staff spacer down does not work on last system of page
This broke with 3.6.0, but it's only broken with vertical justification enabled.
1) default empty score
2) add spacer down to last staff
3) increase its length
Result: it can be increased until it goes right off the page, with no change to spacing until you go so far that the last system does fit on the page at all any more.
Awkward workaround is to use a vertical frame instead.
This has been a bug that has come and gone over the years, breaking with various different changes to the spacing algorithm. See for instance #281253: Staff spacer down doesn't work at page bottom and my PR that fixed it, https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/4722 (specifically, the commit https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/4722/commits/8fa5fcb2d28f5e…).
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https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/7377
Fixed in branch 3.x, commit 0b50db62a2
_Fix #316610 - Staff spacer down does not work on last system of page
Check for an active spacer (a fixed spacer or the up/down spacer with the largest gap) for a system
use this as a fixed gap for vertical staff adjustment. To make sure the spacers also work between
the last staff and the bottom margin of the pages, the calculated space to be used for the spread
algorithm ("spaceLeft") is reduced by this gap._
Fixed in branch master, commit ffb8791dc7
_Port of PR #7377 from 3.x to master
Fix #316610 - Staff spacer down does not work on last system of page
Check for an active spacer (a fixed spacer or the up/down spacer with the largest gap) for a system
use this as a fixed gap for vertical staff adjustment. To make sure the spacers also work between
the last staff and the bottom margin of the pages, the calculated space to be used for the spread
algorithm ("spaceLeft") is reduced by this gap._
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.
For some strange reason this fix has not yet made it into the backend on musescore.com