On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 07:20 -0400, Boris Shingarov wrote: > On Fri, 07 May 2010 21:53:54 0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > If we had something like that, one would not need to meddle with > > paddings and the resulting spurious spacings. > > Like in the old joke of a composition student being given advice to > take the easy route and just write his professor's Praeludien > backwards: "I already tried, Songs by Schubert come out". > > I already tried a number of ways to improve the vertical alignment of > embedded scores, including \vcenter. The resulting alignment is good, > but having good alignment does NOT solve the spurious spacing. The > problem of spurious spacing is that the shape of the staff is > approximated by its bounding box. In the case of text, such > approximations work ok, because the optical "density distribution" is > reasonably close to rectangular. But for music, it is far from > rectangular, we have things sticking out of the staff, like the tip of > the G clef. So visually, the white space above a staff begins from > the 5th line, but the machine starts measuring it from the highest > point of the clef.
The page _layout_ (not breaking) can already take skylines into account, so it shouldn't be too much work to add skyline information to markups/titles. Of course, if you have many of these markup lines with scores on a single page, then you will end up with height-estimation problems and possibly a large space at the bottom of the page. Cheers, Joe _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
