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Re: paper spacing variables not being respected for a score inside marku
From: |
James Lowe |
Subject: |
Re: paper spacing variables not being respected for a score inside markup |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Jun 2018 13:16:38 +0100 (BST) |
Hello,
On Sat, 09 Jun 2018 16:25:48 +0200, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> So all as expected, no bug.
> >
> > Do we need anything in the NR that might help another user in the future?
>
> In principle, yes. In practice I consider this a disgrace and the
> spacing variables should be converted into TeX/LaTeX/TeXinfo equivalents
> when using lilypond-book and something equivalent in \markup-score .
> This is one case where explaining the perfectly logical consequences of
> perfectly understandable technical details of the implementation are a
> mess we don't need.
>
> However, we have no equivalents of the page-break dependent spacing of
> TeX, let alone things like stretchability and shrinkability in LilyPond:
> this is all hardwired in the page breaker and not accessible as markup
> at the user level.
>
> So definitely something that is not going to change anytime very soon.
> might as well document it.
Okey dokey.
https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5339/ has been created for
this.
James