On 2010-06-18 14:31, Joe Neeman wrote:
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 13:08 +0200, Alexander Kobel wrote:
From the docs (NR 4.1.2), bottom-system-spacing should specify the
spacing to the top of the bottom margin. From my experiments however,
it seems that only minimum-distance behaves this way, while padding
relates to the top of the /footer/ instead.
padding, in general, controls the amount of whitespace that must be
present. [...]As far as I can
see, this is consistent with the way that all the spacing variables
work.
That's clear...
(even though the other bottom-system-spacing variables
refer to the middle line of the bottom staff and the top of the bottom
margin)
... but this is where I see the inconsistency - why not the top of the
footer? But I may be completely wrong, since minimum-distance does not
consider the extents of staves (or markups like footer?) at all, AFAICS.
(Besides, I guess the difference only is visible for obscure hacks,
since usually padding will dominate minimum-distance.)
By the way, is it correct and desired that foot-separation does not
exist anymore?
I did intend to remove it, yes. Is there some important functionality
that can't be obtained without it?
No, I think it's functionally equivalent. IIUC, you can increase the
bottom-system-spacing 'padding by the amount of desired foot-separation,
scaled to staff spaces?
It's just that foot-separation is a much simpler variable for the common
user to set than bottom-system-spacing, and it looks easier for backward
compatibility. Not that there is backward compatibility, though, since
vertical spacing changed so much for the good.
Thanks,
Alexander
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