Re: Inline score inside markup - bugs in music alignment

[David Kastrup]

"Jiri Zurek (Prague)" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> 
>> I happen to be the author of a LaTeX style file that typesets
>> footnotes,
>> 
> This is EXCELLENT. Do you know that
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg13795.html I
> offered sponsorship for someone who would built footnotes into the
> Lilypond? THere was even a rich man who promissed to make a double
> match for footnotes to be programmed. I would be most delighted if you
> took up the challenge! Of course, complete markup and score (breakable
> at any point) and freely mixable with the text should be native to
> lilypond footnotes.

Different problem space.  LaTeX can already do footnotes.  It just has a
number of deficiencies that become particularly glaring once you juggle
with multiple layers and when footnotes start breaking across pages.  In
that case, TeX basically disables all its mechanisms for choosing
aesthetically pleasing page breaks.

The Lilypond challenge is not doing footnotes well.  It is doing them at
all.

>> Applying some of this to the context of scores, you would not want to
>> have a _multi-line_ excerpt broken across lines.  And not have one
>> five-line excerpt end at the start of a line, have a few words of
>> text, and the next excerpt start in the same line.  And don't break a
>> score excerpt if you don't save some space.  And so forth and so on.
>> 
> Why do you think I would not like that?

Because I have run through literally years of "ok, formally this meets
the specs, but it looks ugly.  If somebody did that manually, he'd do
this differently.  Make this look better somehow or we won't be able to
get this printed".

You are in the phase of handing out the specs.  Been there, done that,
sweated through a lot of T-shirts.

> I am aiming exactly at that.

I have no doubts.  At the current point of time, I think that you'll be
better served by others.

-- 
David Kastrup