Eluze wrote > > Trevor Daniels wrote >> While browsing the Learning Manual I noticed the last example in Section >> 3.4.4 >> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/saving-typing-with-variables-and-functions >> displays a fault. It is intended to show the use of 'padding to displace >> TextScript, but >> the script is not displaced. The example is still incorrect in the >> latest 2.17.7 manual, >> but I don't know when it went wrong. Possibly the new skyline code >> packing things >> closer together? >> >> I've not yet raised a bug report as I don't know whether this behaviour >> is now >> intended, so I didn't know whether to classify it as a code bug or a >> documentation >> issue. >> >> Comments? > I've often misunderstood what / > padding / > is really meaning: > > - keep that distance above the last object/item/whatever (the normal > staff?) > - add this distance to what has already been calculated > > and my understanding now is: > > - keep at least that distance from the normal upper staff line (and not > from the topmost note) > > usually the collision avoiding mechanism moves a text script upwards > sufficiently - only if you want surplus vertical space above the ledgered > lines you have to add more padding space (and this will be counted from > the normal upper staff line) > > btw - the section you mention wants to explain how to use variables - > maybe the example(s) are a little bit unlucky? > > Eluze
forgot to mention: users often want to change the vertical space between a note head/stem /or/ they want to have it all at the same vertical distance from a staff /per system/. I think this can be done with \override TextScript.outside-staff-padding = #.… (number) /or/ with a special staff context for text scripts - similar to dynamics - with a convenient stretchability (and I just want to add: I /really like/ this new syntax!) should the docs go into this?! Eluze -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Problem-with-padding-and-TextScript-tp135878p135882.html Sent from the Bugs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
