Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> writes:
> Le 27/04/2021 à 07:28, Werner LEMBERG a écrit :
>
>> Right now, the NR section on footnotes looks very ugly. Reason is
>> that footnote marks are not included in skylines; as a consequence,
>> they are cut off, see attached images. (BTW, it seems that this fact
>> is not mentioned in the documentation.)
>>
>> Do you have suggestions how the samples in the NR can be improved to
>> avoid this cut-off?
>
>
> Hi Werner,
>
> I think this is more-or-less expected: we don't want footnotes to
> influence the spacing of the music in general, especially horizontal
> spacing. As to vertical spacing, I don't really know. Maybe they
> ought to be part of the system's skylines, but should we let them
> reserve space between systems?
>
> Cross-staff objects suffer from a similar problem:
>
> <<
> \new Staff = "up" { s4 }
> \new Staff = "down" {
> \stemUp
> \override Beam.positions = #'(17 . 17)
> a16 b
> \change Staff = "up"
> c' d'
> }
>>>
"Cross-staff" means "reserve no skyline". It should really be more
specific, like "no skyline between systems x and y" because the _outer_
skylines should still be affected. Not sure how this related to
footnote numbers.
--
David Kastrup
