Re: Two questions about vertical layout and lyrics spacing

[Janek Warchoł]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Joe Neeman <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Joe Neeman <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > There are two competing desires here: you want the systems to be spaced
>> > more-or-less evenly (ie. with a similar amount of space between the
>> > staves),
>> > and you want the white space between the systems to be more-or-less
>> > uniform.
>> > Currently, we give you three parameters to play with in order to achieve
>> > the
>> > best trade-off: basic-distance (to make the staff-staff distance
>> > uniform),
>> > minimum-distance and padding (to make the white space more uniform). It
>> > seems that you can't find settings for these parameters that gives you
>> > consistently good results across different systems. Could you suggest,
>> > therefore, an extra parameter (or a modification to the algorithm) that
>> > would give you the trade-off you want?
>>
>> I can.
>> I've been thinking about this for a long time; i wanted to refine my
>> idea before posting it on the list, but as the subject appeared on
>> it's own i will take the opportunity to discuss it.
>> In my opinion we should calculate the actual whitespace area between
>> objects (systems, staves, lyrics, anything) using vertical skyline
>> integrals.  The spacing algorithm should then try to space the lines
>> so that the "whitespace area" between lines is similar.
>> I hope that the attachment
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>
> Did you forget something?

oops, i did!
attached now.

thanks,
Janek

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