Re: Add changes entry for Mike's work on skylines. (issue 8613043)

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/4/17 Keith OHara <address@hidden>:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:10:32 -0700, Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> 2013/4/16  <address@hidden>:
>>> So what we need is not a vote.  What we need is as much feedback as we
>>> can get about cases considered problematic, and we need to see whether
>>> we can change defaults in a way where they cease being a problem, at
>>> least to the degree where people will not bother fiddling with
>>> overrides in order to get rid of them.
>>
>> I agree except for the fact that i already think its impossible to
>> tweak defaults to achieve this.
>
>
> Then let's un-tweak the defaults for Lyrics.  Sure, some padding helped in
> your "Tota pulchra" but it might result in wrong placement in other cases,
> so we should remove it:
>
> \new ChoirStaff <<
>   \new Lyrics = "s"
>   \new Staff = "staff" <<
>     \new Voice = "s"  \transpose c c'' { \voiceOne d4 d }
>     \new Voice = "a"  \transpose c c' { \voiceTwo d4 d } >>
>   \new Lyrics = "s" \with { alignAboveContext = "staff" }
>   \context Lyrics = "s" \lyricsto "s" { Ni }
>   \context Lyrics = "a" \lyricsto "a" { j  lli } >>
> \layout { \context {\Lyrics
>     \override VerticalAxisGroup #'nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing = #'()
>     \override LyricText #'skyline-horizontal-padding = #0 }}

Well, that's indeed amazingly ugly example.
I apologize if my email sounded unfriedndly and/or disparaging.  I
agree that we need sane defaults for skylines, and i admit that
there's room for improvement from the current state.  I'll report any
problematic skyline case if i encounter one.

all the best,
Janek