Re: non-technical help for spacing issues

[Keith E OHara]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:12:16 -0700, <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:47:01 -0700, Graham wrote:
> This is directed at people saying "I can't do anything to help..."
You sent this to -devel; did you intend -user ?

> Basically, just try compiling your scores (and any problematic scores
> reported by users) with the new spacing code.  If/when something
> breaks, then make a \layout { \context{}} thing and change some
> overrides until it stops breaking.  Whenever you add an override,
> check that it doesn't break any of your other scores.  You'll want to
> do this as a separate \include file, of course.

I have a couple such overrides already from trying out the first alpha.  In the 
next two evenings, I intend to try 2.13.37 on a few piano pieces, and one 
full-size orchestral score plus parts, and something string-quartet size from 
mutopia.  I can post here any spacing overrides that seem wise, with tiny 
cropped images showing why I think they are wise, by Friday.

However, I have no familiarity with how vocal music is supposed to look, and I 
tend to avoid tweaks myself.  Graham's request seems quite easy for a few 
people to cooperate on, if we test the union of the overrides that we 
collectively need.

Mark wrote:
> Graham Percival wrote:
> > This will be a good test of the new spacing docs
> Graham, this might be a little premature.  [...]
> This is one patch (for NR 4.4.1), which I'm drastically
> revising based on the comments there:
> http://codereview.appspot.com/2642043/.
> [...] the spacing docs are known to be inaccurate and/or
> incomplete, and I'm working on it!

Okay, no complaining about 4.4.1 as printed in the pdf's for 2.13.37, and we 
can read the newer version of spacing.itely through your link.
-Keith