Reinhold started a recent thread on -user about some problems with the current vertical spacing behaviour, particularly when stretching large systems to fill a page: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-06/msg00309.html
To summarize, vertical stretching should be smart enough to add extra space where it is needed most rather than equally distributing it between all the staves. After giving it some thought, I believe that the desired behaviour can be achieved by a system of 'pre-stretched' springs. Since I'm not fluent enough in LP internals to send it as C++, it's in English & pseudocode. It's too big for the email attachment limit, so I have posted it here: http://www.musicbyandrew.ca/springs.pdf I realize that it may be too late in the 2.11 development cycle to start in on something like this right away, but I'd like to hear what you think and how hard it would be to accomplish. I'm very excited about the way this reasonably simple model could accomplish all the objectives of vertical stretching. I'm looking forward to hear what you have to say! If you want, I have also posted the LaTeX file and the figure image: http://www.musicbyandrew.ca/springs.tex http://www.musicbyandrew.ca/prestretchedsprings.png Andrew _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
