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

[Phil Holmes]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
news:address@hidden
> 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

Might be worth adding to the NR where this snippet was taken from.

--
Phil Holmes
Bug Squad