Re: What to do with input/regression/page-spacing.ly

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> in input/regression/page-spacing.ly several commands for
>     \overrideProperty
>     Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-system-details
>     ...
> are applied, i.e. settings for Y-extent, refpoint-Y-extent,
> next-padding, next-space, bottom-space.
>
> As far as I can tell none of them has any visual effect anymore as
> opposed to (far) earlier ly-version.
> Attached a cut off from
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/input/regression/collated-files.pdf
> page 86
> (In my pdf-viewer every glyph is omitted, incompatlible software for
> such an old file I guess, but that's not the point here)
> You'll see those settings _had_ an effect with v2.10
> Additionally, the `obsolete-between-system-space` there let me guess
> that convert-ly was applied to it at some point of time and since then
> nobody touched it.
>
> Strange enough, the last commit I've found tackling paper-system.scm is

Cf. 
<URL:https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2015-06/msg00068.html>
and Trevor's answer.

Not that this is overly conclusive about what we should do here.

-- 
David Kastrup