Re: non-technical help for spacing issues

[Keith E OHara]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:24:33 -0700, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 01:23:01PM -0700, Keith E OHara wrote:
>
> > However, I have no familiarity with how vocal music is supposed
> > to look, and I tend to avoid tweaks myself.  Graham's request
> > seems quite easy for a few people to cooperate on, if we test
> > the union of the overrides that we collectively need.
>
> That would also be great!  Would you be willing to organize such
> an effort, particularly including lilypond-user?
Yes, but only at a 1-2 email per day pace, which should about right for this.

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:57:29 +0200, Janek wrote:

> As for "familiarity with a moderately large body of scores" - i have only
> vocal scores, mostly short SATB choir pieces. If anyone would provide me
> with some other scores, i'll experiment with them as well. And i'll take a
> look on mutopia.
> [...]
> The problems with the "bad" version, compiled with 2.13.35 default settings,
> are: [...]


Jan,
   Version 2.13.37 resolves some major spacing problems, and its version of the 
spacing engine is likely to go into 2.14, except for some changes to variable 
names, and whatever we find necessary in changes to default settings.

   I took a quick look at the overrides in the -ly files you provided, and 
would guess that you will still want some of these in .37.  One goal will be 
learn to use the new system and find single values of the various settings that 
work in combination to space all staves reasonably.

   I hope you can install 2.13.37 and find what changes remain necessary for 
your scores, in the next couple of days.

   Yesterday I tried .37 on my mostly-piano scores, and will report on it this 
evening (American pacific coast time) over on lilypond-user.  I will try to 
collect our needed settings into a single \layout{} on that mailing list.
-
Keith