Re: explicit staff positions for all pages

[Neil Thornock]

THANK YOU CARL!  That's brilliant.  Actually, I failed to comprehend
the necessity of top-system in the equation... so this works greatly.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 11/4/11 1:00 PM, "Neil Thornock" <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>It didn't work -- I still get skylines pushing things around.
>>
>>I'd love to just say: This many systems per page, at these
>>positions... but this time around I suppose I'll do the manual
>>breaks...
>>
>>On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Try adding negative padding to avoid the bumping from the extended
>>> skylines.
>>>
>>> Carl
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>>>
>>> On 11/2/11 7:09 AM, "Neil Thornock" <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>>>Hi Carl,
>>>>Thanks for the advice.  Unfortunately the skylines nudge some systems
>>>>around, like with slurs or pitches high off the staff.  Is there a way
>>>>to give all systems (or staves) the exact same X-extent and ignore
>>>>skylines/bounding boxes of other grobs?
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> I've attached a file that worked for me.
>
> I set minimum distance = basic-distance, stretchability = 0, and padding
> to a big negative number.  As you can see when you run the code, the first
> 2 pages have 5 systems, all of which lie at the same positions, even
> though note heads collide.
>
> You may need to do the same thing within the systems; I haven't done that
> here.
>
> HTH,
>
> Carl
>
>



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