Re: 2.13.54 breaks NoteNames vertical spacing

[Michael Ellis]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith OHara" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 7:26 AM
> Subject: Re: 2.13.54 breaks NoteNames vertical spacing
>
>
>> Michael Ellis <michael.f.ellis <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>  In 2.12,  the NoteNames output lays close beneath the lyric line.
>>> In 2.13.54 the gap is quite large and the output collides with
>>> markup above the next staff.  Is there a workaround?
>>>
>>>
>> Try
>> \layout { \context {
>>  \NoteNames
>>  \override VerticalAxisGroup #'staff-affinity = #UP
>> }}
>>
>> The initialization file (engraver-init.ly) actually says
>>  % FIXME: not sure what the default should be here.
>>  \override VerticalAxisGroup #'staff-affinity = #DOWN
>>
>> So let's set the correct default now.  Is there any reason to assume that
>> note-
>> names will most often be associated with the staff above or the staff
>> below ?
>>
>> If not, we can set staff-affinity to CENTER -- which doesn't really mean
>> center
>> but means get close to a staff on either side.  I guess the programmer
>> didn't
>> think that 'staff-affinity = #PROMISCUOUS  was appropriate.
>
> It definitely works best with staff-affinity UP, where the note names are
> below the stave.  Presumably it would be best with DOWN where they're above.
> It also is improved with:
>
> \paper {
>   system-system-spacing #'padding = #5
> }
>
>
> IIRC, this is all to do with the system spacing not taking account of
> non-staff grobs?  I do think this is likely to cause a number of problems in
> the future.
>


Thanks!  The staff-affinity setting restores the old behavior.  FWIW,
I had to use the \with syntax to get it to actually compile.

        \context NoteNames \with {
            \override VerticalAxisGroup #'staff-affinity = #UP
        } {  \notes }

The system-system-spacing change had no effect, AFAICT.

Making staff-affinity to default to #UP seems sensible to me.  Oh, and
congrats to the development team; compared to 2.12.3,  2.13.54 does a
noticeably better job  of making good trade-offs between note spacing
(horizontally) and lyric syllable spacing.

Cheers,
Mike