On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:27 AM, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > With nereides, one problem actually is that the padding is vertical > padding. This makes the following line pairs considered as having the > same distance: > > ------------------------- > ------------------------- > > \\ > \\ > \\ > \\ > \\ > \\ > \\ > \\ > \\ > \\ > > And we actually need _more_ clearance horizontally since staff line > direction favors optically distinguishing vertically adjacent elements > from different staffs.
Yep, the fact that Lily measures vertical distance so strictly is a problem. However, "area spacing" which i suggest doesn't suffer from this problem at all, see here: http://i.imgur.com/TFWt4.jpg (200 KB) (i hope that the description and logic is clear) > I think the interstaff horizontal padding values should be moderate > inside of a treble/bass PianoStaff or ChoirStaff (less need for padding > if the staffgroup has a continuity of pitches), higher within an > arbitrary StaffGroup, and even higher between different systems. +1 cheers, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
