Re: Semantically equivalent scores look different

[Rune Zedeler]

Erik Sandberg wrote:

> I have a bunch of works I did before 1.4.12, when the polyphonic music had to 
> be done manually, without <x \\ y>. Recently I have ported a few works that 
> used the old syntax, to use the modern < \\ > syntax instead. Though the 
> music should be exactly equivalent, it happens that the spacing is different 
> between the versions (and it happens that the difference is significant, e.g. 
> one version can occupy more space than the other).

The spacing algorithm has changed a lot from 1.4 to 1.6 so you should 
expect to get different spacings if you compile the same file with 1.4 
and 1.6.
So if you compare your old output with your new output then the spacing 
should be changed.
However if you compiled both the old and the new .ly-files with 1.6 and 
STILL see differences then it is weird (probably a bug), and I would 
like to see an example of this.

-Rune