Re: increase vertical space

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

On 2012-11-01 22:54, Eluze wrote:
> Janek Warchoł-2 wrote
> > This may sound surprising, but there are many cases when LilyPond's
> > vertical spacing could be noticeably improved (i admit that most of
> > these cases would matter only to a demanding professional engraver).

+999

Except that some very easy cases also matter to normal users. E.g. 
simply take a look at my empty score sheets and see how they look when 
you remove all the overrides in the \paper block):
http://www.edition-kainhofer.com/en/empty-scoresheets.html

> I believe there are such cases and therefore I'm glad we have the
> possibility to use Harms' solution (or others).
>
> but if we want to improve the spacing we definitely need some traceable
> examples!

As I run into several bad vertical spacing issues (I have some overrides 
that work most of the time, but terribly break with a 100-pages full 
score with 23 instruments and 12 movements...), I started writing a test 
file containing exactly such examples a while ago.

Unfortunately, my time is really constrained currently (had a concert 
with SS Rattle last saturday/sunday, an upcoming opera premiere in the 
Theater an der Wien and a normal day job), so I have only some cases for 
single-staff scores... The staff groups are much more fun (i.e. cause 
way more trouble to get the spacing richt), but I haven't even started 
on them.
I hope to find more time in the next few weeks/months, but I can't 
promise anything.

Cheers,
REinhold
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