> 2) write better docs
I talked around my point but didn't make a conclusion. Docs for the correct way to solve this, system-system-spacing, are already good. One might ask : Why not increase, or document, skyline-horizontal-padding ? When skylines are padded, they make a nice cushion shape (image attached) like David was asking for. The cushion does not extend vertically, but that is what the various 'padding properties are for. However, skyline-horizontal-padding consistently pads skylines *wherever* they are used, and I found more places where I would not want even half a note-width of padding (attached piano music images are with and without). So I do not think skyline compaction is going overboard at all -- most times. In the example that opened the issue, I think it is the fact that the notes are logically unrelated that makes their interleaving so objectionable. Therefore the response should be tied to the fact that they are from different systems, so bump system-system-spacing back up. The skyline concept is not described at all in the manual. Instead, the manual teaches how to increase padding of individual classes of objects that a user might want to space further apart, which I think is the right approach. Maybe we would like some teaching about horizontal padding using minimum-X-extent, which I'll think about as I turn from vertical to horizontal spacing in alpha testing. -Keith _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
