Re: Two questions about vertical layout and lyrics spacing

2012-03-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I suggest that the vertical spacing alrogithm should calculate the > area between the objects (staves, systems, lyrics etc). See here > how it would work: http://www.freeimagehosting.net/tsr21 Looks right: The area between horizontal skylines should influence the spacing. However, I think we

Re: Two questions about vertical layout and lyrics spacing

2012-03-21 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 01:53:10PM -0700, Joe Neeman wrote: >> There are two competing desires here [...]. Could you suggest, therefore, an >> extra parameter (or a modification to the [vertical spacing] algorithm) that >> would give yo

Re: Two questions about vertical layout and lyrics spacing

2012-03-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 01:53:10PM -0700, Joe Neeman wrote: grrr... I _must_ remember to look to whom I send my replies; stupid mutt. I answered only to Joe again. Here goes a second time: > > Example #2, padding.png, shows a piece which has a large variation in > > staff height, because there ar

Re: Two questions about vertical layout and lyrics spacing

2012-03-19 Thread Joe Neeman
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Joe Neeman wrote: > > There are two competing desires here: you want the systems to be spaced > > more-or-less evenly (ie. with a similar amount of space between the > staves), > > and you want the white spac

Re: Two questions about vertical layout and lyrics spacing

2012-03-19 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Joe Neeman wrote: > There are two competing desires here: you want the systems to be spaced > more-or-less evenly (ie. with a similar amount of space between the staves), > and you want the white space between the systems to be more-or-less uniform. > Currently, we

Re: Two questions about vertical layout and lyrics spacing

2012-03-18 Thread Joe Neeman
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Example #2, padding.png, shows a piece which has a large variation in staff > height, because there are either two lines of lyrics to a staff or none at > all. As lilypond tries to keep an even system-system-distance, the result > is

Re: Two questions about vertical layout and lyrics spacing

2012-03-17 Thread Keith OHara
Frank Steinmetzger gmx.de> writes: > [...] However, this is one of the cases where it leads to a lot of > empty room between system. What would be a good way to make the > overall appearance a bit lighter by un-squeezing the systems? > > Essentially, I would like to make the basic line height

Re: Two questions about vertical layout and lyrics spacing

2012-03-17 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > The first one, lyrics.png, shows a page created by both 2.12 and 2.14.  Thanks > to the smaller space between a staff and its lyrics, the systems now become > less high.  This is often a good thing, as it allows to get more on a page. >