Re: SeparationItem #'padding not working anymore?

[Trevor Daniels]

Mats Bengtsson wrote Sunday, March 01, 2009 8:17 AM


> Quoting Patrick McCarty <address@hidden>:
>
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Valentin Villenave
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > 2009/2/2 Joe Neeman <address@hidden>:
> > > > On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 12:21 -0600, Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> > > > > Ok Graham.  I've been trying for 20 minutes and can't figure 
> > > > > how to use
> > > > > PaperColumn to change spacing, though.  Joe, could you send me 
> > > > > a snippet
> > > > > that shows how to use this?
> > > >
> > > > This is very embarrassing, I'm just testing the fix:
> > > >
> > > > spacing-spanner.cc:306:
> > > > set_column_rods (cols, 0.1); // FIXME: padding
> > >
> > > Greetings Joe,
> > >
> > > where are we now? Does this SeparationItem thingy deserve an 
> > > issue in
> > > the tracker?
> >
> > I don't think it deserves an issue.
> >
> > We have two options:
> >
> > 1) Remove SeparationItem from LilyPond's source
> > (scm/define-grobs.scm).  Then we would need a convert-ly rule.
> > 2) Keep SeparationItem, even though it is never used.
> >
> > I guess it all depends on whether SeparationItem will ever be 
> > used
> > again in the future.
>
> The main thing is that the documentation is modified to show a 
> solution that works, i.e. that gives the same result as you 
> previously could obtain setting SeparationItem #'padding = ...

Yes, we're waiting for Joe to complete his fix so we can use
'spacing-spanner in the docs.  At present no one has found a
way to make it work.  Or has this been fixed silently?

Trevor