On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 17:33 +0000, Richard Shann wrote: > On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 14:35 +0000, Richard Shann wrote: > > Thanks for the feedback. > > On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 15:20 +0200, Lib Lists wrote: > > > Hi, everything seems to work here well and smoothly. The > > > automatic > > > adjustment creates quite a big gap between staves, making reading > > > multiple staves slightly uncomfortable to me. Is that done on > > > purpose > > > (for example in the future the possibility of giving more space > > > to > > > other elements, i.e. dynamics, hairpins etc.)? > > Perhaps that was the idea (this is ancient code) - putting in a > > hairpin > > does not affect the spacing, so if the staffs were much closer by > > default then things would start clashing when hairpins were added. > > However, the placing of hairpins under the notes ignores the note > > positions, so they already easily clash with the note heads > > themselves. > > I think it might be work just to have the default spacing rather > > less, > > I'll look into it. > > It turns out you can already decrease the minimum distance between > staffs via > Command: Score Properties Editor > Opens a dialog to edit the score properties. > Location: Object Menu ▶ Score > Internal Name: EditScoreProperties > > and choosing Edit Built-in Score Properties. > > However the minimum is still quite large and anyway the choice isn't > saved with the score. I've now made it possible to reduce this until > there is only space for one leger line between the staffs and the > choice is stored with the score. > > I've discovered also that there is a command > > Command: Taller Staffs > No Tooltip yet > Location: Object Menu ▶ Staffs/Voices ▶ Display Effects > Internal Name: TallerStaffs > > which can be used in a script eg: > > (d-TallerStaffs 850)
hmm, actually d-TallerStaffs doesn't respond to the parameter passed, it does an increment of half a staff line or some such... > > and a corresponding > > Command: Shorter Staffs > No Tooltip yet > Location: Object Menu ▶ Staffs/Voices ▶ Display Effects > Internal Name: ShorterStaffs > > It would seem they are in the wrong menu as they affect all the > staffs > in the movement. I've moved them to the movement menu now. Richard