Noeck wrote Friday, December 11, 2015 1:19 PM
> Hi Federico and Simon, > >>> %%%%% >>> If a page has a ragged bottom, the resulting distance is the largest of: >>> >>> basic-distance, >>> minimum-distance, and >>> padding plus the smallest distance necessary to eliminate collisions >>> %%%%%% >>> >>> Does it mean that it will take the largest value between those three? >> >> Yes. > > Depends on how you define largest value. Not in the sense of > max(basic-distance, minimum-distance, padding) > because they measure different distances from different points. > I tried to illustrate it here: > http://joramberger.de/files/LilypondSpacing.pdf > > So the final distance is the basic-distance (which can be stretched and > shrunk), but not smaller than minimum-distance. Depending on the > available space, it can more or less than basic-distance, but never > smaller than minimum-distance. And in addition not so small, that > objects from the upper staff are closer to objects from the lower staff > than padding. > > In stead of the maximum of these properties it is more the maximum of > derived quantities: > > max(basic * stretching factor, minimum, padding + extent of skylines) > > In particular the stretching factor is missing from the reasoning in the > docs above. I don't think this is correct. The quoted words begin, "If a page has a ragged bottom ..." When that is the case there is no stretching, and the straight quantities apply. Trevor _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
