THANK YOU CARL! That's brilliant. Actually, I failed to comprehend the necessity of top-system in the equation... so this works greatly.
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Carl Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 11/4/11 1:00 PM, "Neil Thornock" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>It didn't work -- I still get skylines pushing things around. >> >>I'd love to just say: This many systems per page, at these >>positions... but this time around I suppose I'll do the manual >>breaks... >> >>On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Carl Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Try adding negative padding to avoid the bumping from the extended >>> skylines. >>> >>> Carl >>> >>> >>> On 11/2/11 7:09 AM, "Neil Thornock" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>Hi Carl, >>>>Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately the skylines nudge some systems >>>>around, like with slurs or pitches high off the staff. Is there a way >>>>to give all systems (or staves) the exact same X-extent and ignore >>>>skylines/bounding boxes of other grobs? > > > I've attached a file that worked for me. > > I set minimum distance = basic-distance, stretchability = 0, and padding > to a big negative number. As you can see when you run the code, the first > 2 pages have 5 systems, all of which lie at the same positions, even > though note heads collide. > > You may need to do the same thing within the systems; I haven't done that > here. > > HTH, > > Carl > > -- Neil Thornock, D.M. No Stopping, Standing, or Parking: http://neilthornock.net/mp3s/nostopping.mp3 Assistant Professor of Music Composition/Theory Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
