> What I really would like to have is a staff spacing system that tries to
> squeeze together the staves until either a minimum interstaff distance is
> reached or some interference between the printed material occurs.
> For example, if some interstaff space is occupied by a lower slur of the
> upper staff on the left and an upper slur of the lower staff on the right,
> lily should be able to squeeze the staves taking into account that the
> two slurs can not collide. A further improvement would be taking into
> account that the slurs are curved and the space they occupy is smaller
> than the rectangle that contains them.
Agreed! Unfortunately, this cannot be achieved with the current TeX
based solution, since TeX puts a rectangle around each staff when
calculating the positioning.
/Mats
