spacing in v 1.4.9 vs spacing in v 1.2.17

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

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> i have been using lilypond during the last few months and it's great.
> recently i upgraded from version 1.2.17 to 1.4.9 and what i remarked
> is a slightly worse handling of spacing when running ly2dvi. 
> i put the two outputs on my web-page under
> 
> http://www.ian.pv.cnr.it/~aivlis/example1-2-17.ps
> http://www.ian.pv.cnr.it/~aivlis/example1-4-9.ps
> 
> in the second one the chords are clashing one with the other, and with
> the tie below, and the score is too close (in my opinion) to the title and
> authors listing. i think i can fix this using some dirty trick (like forcing 

you can set Staff.MinimumVerticalExtent = #'(-6 . 6)
to get larger staffs (or use a different number than 6 to get
different distances.)


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