Re: Vertical spacing tweaks.

[Trevor Bača]

On 9/22/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> Trevor Bača wrote:
> > Third question: would either feature #1, #2 or #3 afford the following 
> > ability:
> >
> > To be able to set both the *very topmost* staffline on a page (ie, the
> > top staffline of the top staff of the top system of the page) at an
> > exact vertical distance from the top of the page and the *very
> > bottommost* staffline on a page (ie, the bottom staffline of the
> > bottom staff of the bottom system of the page) at an exact vertical
> > distance from the bottom of the page? (The point being to be able to
> > make the topmost stafflines and bottommost stafflines align vertically
> > on facing pages (or to even more strictly force those distances
> > constant throughout an entire score.))
>
> I'm not sure that I understand what you mean.  Do you want the systems
> to be vertically aligned against the page boundaries with their staves
> (ie. the 5-line staff symbols) iso. their bounding boxes?

Yes, precisely. It would (theoretically) therefore be possible for the
bounding box to extend off the page ... but in practice the user will
simply increase the top or bottom margin.


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Trevor Bača
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