> >>> Regarding head-separation I wonder whether the current approach
> >>> of lilypond to handle headers and footers is the right one.
> >>> Wouldn't it be better to define a zone of a given height within
> >>> the header (or footer) is rendered, instead of defining a
> >>> distance from the header to the score?
> >>
> >>> Currently, if a header line is missing, the whole text jumps up.
> >>
> >> Perhaps we can take the maximum of both distances,
> >
> > Which distances?
>
> We could have a header separation measuring distance from the
> header,
distance B
> and another separation from the top of the page.
distance A
> The effective distance would be the lowest of both.
Isn't this the same what I propose?
------------ ------------
^ header ^ ^ no header
| ------------ | | ------------
A| ^ A| B|
| B| | |
v v v v
------------ ------------
BTW, the change to `first-line-position' is a quite severe
modification to the layout of the first page. Shouldn't this be
mentioned somewhere? I can imagine that we add a CHANGES file which
reports `minor' user-visible changes (but all of them which are not
mentioned in the NEWS file).
Werner
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