Re: More vertical spacing confusion

[Keith OHara]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:16:33 -0700, Adam Spiers <address@hidden> wrote:
> To this end I'd really appreciate if anyone can answer my original
> questions regarding the arrow annotations, extent-estimate, mysterious
> vertical gaps etc.,

These I don't know much about.  Anybody else?

I do know they are undocumented debugging output, that somebody though might be 
useful to users.  I do know that the vertical gaps are usually there.  I was 
not surprised by the gaps because Lilypond spreads the systems to fill the 
available vertical space on the page.

> and also give more information around your
> assertion that Lilypond doesn't break pages properly.

I only meant to assert/confirm what you suspected, that it doesn't page-break 
your specific example properly.

> Do you mean there are known bugs specifically with the 2.15.x series,or just 
> with every version?

2.15.x are the development versions.  I wouldn't (and I don't) use them except 
to test the new developments.  The stable version is 2.14.2.

The project has a publicly-visible bug tracker at 
<http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/list> (and takes bug reports at 
address@hidden).  Of course there are known bugs, but I don't see any that explains 
what you see. (I didn't look very hard, though.)

The Lilypond project asks users to isolate their bugs in a minimal example.  
Lilypond tends to have enough technically-savvy, or simply resourceful, users 
who tend to be capable of doing this.