Re: Issue 1290 in lilypond: Skyline compaction is going overboard sometimes

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Comment #4 on issue 1290 by percival.music.ca: Skyline compaction is going  
overboard sometimes
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1290

David Kastrup wrote:
> As long as there is no reasonably documented way to arrive at a good
> result, with simple input and the usual defaults resulting in awful
> output, I have my reservations about everything being fine.

> I think that the default horizontal padding should at the very least not
> be smaller than the usual vertical padding.

I agree.  I see two possible solutions:
1) change the default horizontal padding to match the 2.12 version.  (it  
may be different code, so just try a bunch of examples and try to imitate  
the 2.12 behavior)

2) write better docs for this particular tweak -- i.e. in the main Spacing  
manual chapter -- and dump an item into changes.tely mentioning this new  
behavior and where to find docs on tweaking it.


Neither of these changes requires Joe, or any code changes (other than the  
default value, which I guess would be defined in the source code somewhere).

If you decide to take #2 and not changing any default values (as per #1),  
then this issue should be changed to be Type-Documentation.