Re: feature request: semi-automatic vertical spacement

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Trevor Bača wrote:
> >   The pagebreak/linebreak/stretching is put into an alist, and stored
> >   with the system in a table
>
> ... will it also be possible to set the *absolute* page position of
> each staff (and therefore each system) on a page-by-page basis (by
> means of some reference point, possibly the bottom staffline of each
> staff)? Something like:
>
> page 1:
>
>   system 3:
>      staff 2, bottom staffline: 29.92 cm from page-bottom
>      staff 1, bottom staffline: 26.24 cm from page-bottom


> Perhaps absolute positioning might not be the right way to go, but it
> would certainly help me vertically fix staves exactly where I want
> them on the page. If absolute positioning doesn't fit with the model,
> then that's certainly ok; but if we can think of a good, lily-esque
> way of adding absolute positioning during the proposed refactoring,
> then I'd certainly be interested in helping fund the work.
>
> (Or maybe this is already possible some other way and I just haven't
> researched hard enough; if so, please ignore the request.)

Of course it's possible, you just have to write loads of Scheme code :-)

I can look into this. Shall I make a combined quote for refactoring the 
pagelayout to do both automatic stretching and absolute positioning?

Regards,

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