On 5/25/11 4:27 PM, "Trevor Bača" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm looking to vertically lay out systems in a very rigid and regular way. > (This is the method I documented a while back in 4.4.2 'Explicit staff and > system positioning' using the Y-offset and alignment-distances attributes of > line-break-system-details.) The challenge is that this method produces > different visual results than it used to now that the new vertical spacing > code has been added into the system. Examples are the easiest way to show the > difference. > > > It would appear that what's going on here is that Lily's assessment of what > counts as the topmost edge of a system has changed over time: previously, the > Y-offset attribute of line-break-system-details applied to the top staff line > of the topmost staff in a system; now, the Y-offset attribute of > line-break-system-details applies to the outermost envelope (skyline?) of the > system. This makes sense. But I would really like to be able to reproduce the > utterly regular vertical spacing of my previous scores using current versions > of Lily. > > Is there any way to achieve the vertical layout of systems that I'm looking > for with modern versions of Lily? I couldn't get your examples to compile, so I couldn't test them. I think you want to set top-system-spacing and system-system-spacing with a 'stretchability of 0, which will place the system at a fixed location, regardless of the notes present. HTH, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
