Re: Issue 1290 in lilypond: Skyline compaction is going overboard sometimes

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden writes:

> Updates:
>       Labels: -Priority-Critical Priority-Medium
>
> Comment #3 on issue 1290 by n.puttock: Skyline compaction is going
> overboard sometimes
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1290
>
> Skylines are padded slightly, but you can tweak the amount via
> skyline-horizontal-padding.
>
> {
>   \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'skyline-horizontal-padding = #2
>   \repeat unfold 80 { <c'''-1 e'''-3 g'''-5> c' <c,-1 e,-3 g,-5> c' }
> }
>
> I don't think this is a critical issue.

As long as there is no reasonably documented way to arrive at a good
result, with simple input and the usual defaults resulting in awful
output, I have my reservations about everything being fine.

I think that the default horizontal padding should at the very least not
be smaller than the usual vertical padding.

-- 
David Kastrup