Re: Vertical space for imaginary, real collisions

[Graham Percival]

I believe you are mistaken.  The space that lilypond creates in the 
first line is appropriate; if the text occurred beneath the sixteenth 
notes, any less space would result in a collision.  LilyPond calculates 
this space based on drawing a box around the whole system.

In the second line, there is no collision.  If you zoom in, you can see 
a space.

Cheers,
- Graham


Marcus Macauley wrote:
> Sometimes Lilypond creates vertical space between staves to avoid a 
> collision between, for example, a text markup in one staff and a beam in 
> the other staff, when these two things happen in different measures and 
> wouldn't actually collide.
>
> On the other hand, in cases where they do collide and hence the vertical 
> space is necessary, sometimes it isn't quite enough.
>
> This file demonstrates both cases:
>
>
> \version "2.9.22"
> <<
> \new Staff \relative a' { a4 a a a << {a a a a} \\ {a,8 a a a a a a a} 
>  >> \break
>     \repeat unfold 3 { a'4 a a a << {a a a a} \\ {a,8 a a a a a a a} >> }
> }
> \new Staff \relative a' {
>     a1^\markup {
>         \column {
>             \line {This text wouldn't collide w/ the beam,}
>             \line {so less vertical space is needed.}
>         }}
>     a \break
>     a^\markup {
>         \column {
>             \line {This text does collide with the beam,}
>             \line {so more vertical space is needed.}
>         }}
>     a a a a a
>        
> }
> > >
> \layout {  }
>
>
>
>
> Marcus
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> bug-lilypond mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond