Re: feedback: general thoughts about using LilyPond

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/3/13 Andrew Hawryluk <address@hidden>:
> 2011/3/13 Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>:
>> 3. I have serious troubles with vertical layout of choral scores containing
>> anything besides notes. Slurs, and especially dynamics, tend to make systems
>> very high; i struggle to achieve 4 systems-per-page layout, which is always
>> certainly possible, but tweaking needed to achieve this is always
>> hit-and-miss. It looks like Lily tries *too* hard to avoid objects being too
>> close and colliding; this leads to problems.
>
> Some of this is caused by the rectangular skylines that LilyPond uses
> around slurs:

exactly.

> \version "2.13.54"
> #(ly:set-option 'debug-skylines #t)
> \relative c' { << {e4( f g c b1)} \\ {c,4( d e f g1)\p} >>}
>
> (A longer slur would produce a more extreme example.) Segmenting the
> skyline into a number of tangent lines would improve things (even two
> or three would help), but that's pretty far beyond my skills right
> now.

Mine too, unfortunately...

cheers,
Janek