> [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)
The discussion was about the separation between different score lines,
which is still controled by TeX (\def\interscoreline{\vskip 16pt}).
What cannot be handled nicely now is the following situation.
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/Mats
