Re: Improves horizontal spacing of axis groups that SpanBar grobs traverse. (issue 4917046)

[Neil Puttock]

On 17 September 2011 15:45, Mike Solomon <address@hidden> wrote:

> The problem comes not from this patch but from the calculation of the 
> horizontal skylines for NonMusicalPaperColumns.  Try adding:
>
> \override Score . NonMusicalPaperColumn #'stencil = #ly:separation-item::print
>
> To the beginning of SopranoMusic and then running LilyPond with 
> -ddebug-skylines.  You'll see that in the first example, the downward stem 
> pushes the lyrics under the end point of the NonMusicalPaperColumn, whereas 
> this does not happen in the second example.
>
> Thus, the dependency is not stems (drop the soprano an octave and you'll see 
> that) but NonMusicalPaperColumn grobs.

This isn't really a bug.  NonMusicalPaperColumn has a default setting
for skyline-vertical-padding which extends the skyline slightly.

Cheers,
Neil