Re: system separator markup position

[Neil Thornock]

Thanks for the suggestion. While it does avoid the collision, it doesn't center the separator between staves. I believe the separator is spaced evenly between the vertical midpoint of each surrounding staff (line-position 0), and so when the bottom staff is that tall, it encroaches on the separator. It would be better if the separator were centered between the bottom line of the staff above it and the top line of the staff below it, or maybe calculated from the staves's actual Y-extent.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:34 PM, David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:02 PM, David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Neil,

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Neil Thornock <address@hidden> wrote:

I found a kludge-solution:

I created a new top staff, created a 0-line staff, removed all the other stencils, and then placed that staff directly overlapping with the top of the tall staff with explicit positioning. Whew! It works well enough.

Why not add something like the following to your \paper block:

system-system-spacing.basic-distance = 24

I suggest this because it appears (in scm/page.scm) that the separator markup is placed after the positions of the systems on the page have been determined and therefore has no influence on vertical spacing.