Re: When was vspace introduced?

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2010-09-06 15:45, Christopher Meredith wrote:
> I have been using latest stable (2.12.3) because that's what comes
> with Ubuntu. Everything's fine, except it doesn't appear to recognize
> vspace (I get compile errors). I installed 2.13.31 which does
> recognize vspace, but now I am having problems with placement of all
> my other objects (everything seems more cramped). I'd like to try the
> earliest version that supports vspace to see if it solves both
> problems at once.

Hi, Christopher,

vspace has been introduced in the 2.13.x series.  This features the new 
vertical layout algorithm, which seems to cause you the problems.
But the definition of vspace works with 2.12.x (and probably even 
earlier) - just include the following in your file to "backport" it 
(taken from scm/define-markup-commands.scm):

#(define-markup-command (vspace layout props amount)
 (number?)
  (let ((amount (* amount 3.0)))
    (if (> amount 0)
        (ly:make-stencil "" (cons 0 0) (cons 0 amount))
        (ly:make-stencil "" (cons 0 0) (cons amount amount)))))


HTH,
Alexander