Re: elastic space between staves

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> > Lilypond places the system as one object (and in 2.3, in fact the
> > whole page is dupmed as a single stencil).
> 
> With other words, lilypond now controls complete output, including
> page layout?  Then I can't offer any new ideas how to get my wish

Yes.

> automatically since I'm not familiar yet with this new code. :-(

It's much simpler than the convoluted TeX backend. Anyway, systems
have always been placed as a complete object, so your idea has never
been possible.

One problem are system delimeters. Those need to stretch and shrink
along with the staves, so that has to happen inside lilypond.

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