Le 12/11/2022 à 00:23, Carl Sorensen a écrit :
IIUC, columns are spaced with springs and rods considering collisions between adjacent columns.The hope was that one could create negative space in the column with no lyricText, thus allowing the adjacent column to overlap the column with no lyrics and not have it be considered a collision. Then the standard spacing rules could be followed, but the columns could overlap.Maybe this makes no sense at all (I'm clearly not at expert -- or even a novice -- in the spacing engine). It was just a thought of a way to try to approach the problem by changing grobs, instead of the spacing engine.
Preventing the spacing engine from seeing a collision somewhere is not a problem. You can use extra-spacing-width for that. The problem is that in this situation: | | | lyric_word exceedingly_long_lyric_word another_lyric_word | | | | | | column 1 column 2 column 3 If what you need is less space between column 1 and column 2, you can keep the long lyric word aligned on the right, making for a small space: Possibility 1 ============== | | | lyric_word exceedingly_long_lyric_word another_lyric_word | | | | | | column 1 column 2 column 3 If, on the other hand, what you need is less space between columns 2 and 3, you will do Possibility 2 ============= | | | lyric_word exceedingly_long_lyric_word another_lyric_word | | | | | | column 1 column 2 column 3 In order to prevent the lyric words from colliding, you normally need to set up a minimum distance from column 1 to column 2 and from column 2 to column 3. If you want to keep both alignment possibilities open in order to leave the spacing engine more freedom for spacing notes equally, the minimum distance from column 1 to column 2 needs to be as small as the distance there is in the first possibility. Otherwise, you will just prevent that possibility from happening by forcing columns 1 and 2 to be too far from each other. Similarly, the minimum distance from column 2 to column 3 needs to be no larger than the distance there is in possibility 2. The issue is that this doesn't tell the spacing engine that the distances from 1 to 2 and from 2 to 3 can both be small, but cannot be small *at the same time*. So, it might choose to do collision collision | | v v | | | lyric_word | another_lyric_word | exceedingly_long_lyric_word | | | column 1 column 2 column 3 I hope it's clearer explained in this way. Best, Jean
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