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minimumVerticalExtent default in 1.5
From: |
Han-Wen |
Subject: |
minimumVerticalExtent default in 1.5 |
Date: |
Sat, 3 Aug 2002 23:10:36 +0200 |
address@hidden writes:
> Were there many requests to change the default \property
> Staff.minimumVerticalExtent ? In 1.4, it looks like the default was
> #'(-4 . 4) , but in 1.5 the default changed to #'(-6 . 6) . Why the
> change? I don't think that it was hard to read music with #'(-4 . 4)
> spacing, and bigger spacing uses more paper.
We changed it after looking closely at the Baerenreiter edition of the
Cello Suite II sarabande. Perhaps 6 is too much, but IIRC we also
tuned down the padding between staves, to get more regularly spaced
staves as a net effect.
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Han-Wen Nienhuys | address@hidden | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen