On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 4:45 PM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote: > > Le 31/08/2022 à 01:33, Knute Snortum a écrit : > > Hi everyone, > > > > I have a problem that is unfortunately very difficult to reproduce. > > It seems in some circumstances that the padding setting in the paper > > block is not honored. I've attached a screenshot. In the middle you > > can see that the slur from the bottom stave is going through the pedal > > marking of the top stave. It looks like the padding is measured from > > the ottava bracket and not the slur, but that's just a guess. > > > > I have tried and failed to create a MWE. I've attached my attempt but > > unfortunately it does not reproduce the problem. (I couldn't get the > > ottava bracket below the slur which may be why the MWE fails.) > > > > For the brave, I have uploaded my source files to GitHub: > > https://github.com/ksnortum/chopin-opus-25/tree/main > > > > If anyone is willing to tackle this problem, it would be much appreciated. > > > > Well, here is a reasonably minimal example: > > \version "2.23.12" > > veryHigh = > \shape #'((0 . 0) (0 . 10) (0 . 10) (0 . 0)) \etc > > << > \new Staff { > R1 > \break > % OK > c'''2\veryHigh ( 2) > \break > % KO > c'''2\veryHigh ( \change Staff = down 2) > } > \new Staff = down { > s1*3 > } > >> > > > Unfortunately, this is hard to fix. The second is cross-staff. Because of > this, its shape, and consequently its height, depend on the exact distance > between the staves (inside one system). But that distance depends itself > on everything else that is on the page (other systems), as LilyPond will > try to find a good fit for the page globally. So LilyPond needs to space > the staves before it can know how tall the slur it is. > > (*Maybe* it would be possible to let LilyPond reuse the pure height > estimation > in this case. I'm not sure, and I haven't tried.) > > For now, I am afraid you need to resort to manual system positioning, > as described on > > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/explicit-staff-and-system-positioning > > Best, > Jean > >
Thanks Jean, for looking into this, and for the MWE. -- Knute Snortum
