Re: strange vertical line at staff begin using StaffSymbol #'staff-space

[Trevor Daniels]

Neil Puttock wrote Thursday, March 10, 2011 5:36 PM


> On 10 March 2011 17:26, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>
> > I seem to remember this being pointed out by Valentin
> > a year or more ago. The line appears for 'staff-space
> > settings greater than some number around 1.22. I don't
> > recall ever seeing an explanation for it.
>
> It due to the extent of the expanded stave exceeding 
> 'collapse-height
> for SystemStartBar.  Unfortunately, it will be difficult to fix, 
> since
> the delimiter is contained in the Score context: it can't see the
> stave's altered staff-space so scaling won't work via
> Staff_symbol_referencer::staff_space ().

Thanks Neil!  At least this gives an easy work-around if the line
isn't wanted:

 \override Score.SystemStartBar #'collapse-height = #10   % or 
whatever is needed

Trevor