[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > 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.
This has nothing to do with TeX. LilyPond uses \specials for making
slurs, and TeX has no idea how big they are. LilyPond controls all
dimensions (through boxes sett to a preset size)
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Han-Wen Nienhuys, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter
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