Re: Feature request (?): Horizontal spacing

[David Rogers]

Erik Sandberg wrote:

>This is of course achievable by adding \breaks manually, but my
>suggestion is to add a property for a threshold value that somehow
>controls an upper bound of how tightly spaced a staff can be. This
>could e.g. be the minimum horizontal distance between notes, but I
>guess there could exist more logical variables as well.
>
>I can’t recall anyone saying anything about this feature, and I can’t
>find it in the manual, so I suppose it doesn’t exist. If it does,
>perhaps it should be mentioned in the docs, under global layout?


I suppose a skilled human engraver would have a mental hierarchy of
which parameters to change first (from among staff spacing, note
spacing, staff sizes, etc), in order to "make it fit". The most lovely
thing would be if Lilypond was able to mimic that way of thinking, (i.e.
the first thought is "I want to make it fit on X pages", and everything
follows from there), rather than trial and error by the user.

David