Re: Staff spacing and collisions

[Mats Bengtsson]

Oscar van Eijk wrote:

> Mats,
>
> Thanks for your reply, but it's fixed already :)
> The output was based on an old template I grabbed from the 2.6
> documentation. I updated it with the latest piano from the snippets doc;
> the URL now shows the correct output.
> The slur of bars 6-7 still takes up a lot of space, but I think I'll be
> able to fix that.
>  
Yes it's really ugly. One solution seems to be to add a setting
like
\once \override Slur #'positions = #'(5 . 5)
See also the bug report "Weird output" that I just
sent to the bug-lilypond mailing list.

   /Mats

> Thnx,
> Oscar
>
> On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 10:02 +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>  
>
> > Oscar van Eijk wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm 'Lilyponding' a small prelude I wrote. It's only one page, but I
> > > can't get it without collisions.
> > >
> > > I attached a PNG, if that's not clear enough; the PDF is at
> > > http://vaneyck.terra-terra.com/Senorio.de.los.Llanos.pdf.
> > >
> > > My problem is mainly the slur above bars 19 and 20 that collide with the
> > > Pedal sign of bar 14.
> > >  
> > >      
> > It looks like a bug to me that you get this collision, even though I 
> > guess that
> > LilyPond makes some approximations to the actual slur shape when it 
> > calculates
> > the vertical spacing. Can you please send a .ly file example (as small 
> > as possible)
> > to bug-lilypond.
> >    
> >
> > > It could easily be solved if the staff space of the second line would be
> > > decreased a bit, but I can't find how to achieve that.
> > >  
> > >      
> > I don't really understand what kind of solution you want. The natural 
> > solution
> > would be to increase the spacing between the two systems (score lines).
> > One trick to do that, if everything else fails, is described in
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-09/msg00454.html
> >
> >    /Mats
> >    
>
>
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