Re: paper spacing variables not being respected for a score inside markup

[James Lowe]

Hello,

On Sat, 09 Jun 2018 16:25:48 +0200, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> >> So all as expected, no bug.
> >
> > Do we need anything in the NR that might help another user in the future?
> 
> In principle, yes.  In practice I consider this a disgrace and the
> spacing variables should be converted into TeX/LaTeX/TeXinfo equivalents
> when using lilypond-book and something equivalent in \markup-score .
> This is one case where explaining the perfectly logical consequences of
> perfectly understandable technical details of the implementation are a
> mess we don't need.
> 
> However, we have no equivalents of the page-break dependent spacing of
> TeX, let alone things like stretchability and shrinkability in LilyPond:
> this is all hardwired in the page breaker and not accessible as markup
> at the user level.
> 
> So definitely something that is not going to change anytime very soon.
> might as well document it.


Okey dokey.

https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5339/  has been created for 
this.

James