Re: Automatic adjustment of staff heights in display

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 17:33 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 14:35 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> > Thanks for the feedback.
> > On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 15:20 +0200, Lib Lists wrote:
> > > Hi, everything seems to work here well and smoothly. The
> > > automatic
> > > adjustment creates quite a big gap between staves, making reading
> > > multiple staves slightly uncomfortable to me. Is that done on
> > > purpose
> > > (for example in the future the possibility of giving more space
> > > to
> > > other elements, i.e. dynamics, hairpins etc.)?
> > Perhaps that was the idea (this is ancient code) - putting in a
> > hairpin
> > does not affect the spacing, so if the staffs were much closer by
> > default then things would start clashing when hairpins were added.
> > However, the placing of hairpins under the notes ignores the note
> > positions, so they already easily clash with the note heads
> > themselves.
> > I think it might be work just to have the default spacing rather
> > less,
> > I'll look into it.
> 
> It turns out you can already decrease the minimum distance between
> staffs via 
> Command: Score Properties Editor
> Opens a dialog to edit the score properties.
> Location: Object Menu ▶ Score
> Internal Name: EditScoreProperties
> 
> and choosing Edit Built-in Score Properties.
> 
> However the minimum is still quite large and anyway the choice isn't
> saved with the score. I've now made it possible to reduce this until
> there is only space for one leger line between the staffs and the
> choice is stored with the score.
> 
> I've discovered also that there is a command 
> 
> Command: Taller Staffs
> No Tooltip yet
> Location: Object Menu ▶ Staffs/Voices ▶ Display Effects
> Internal Name: TallerStaffs
> 
> which can be used in a script eg:
> 
> (d-TallerStaffs 850)

hmm, actually d-TallerStaffs doesn't respond to the parameter passed,
it does an increment of half a staff line or some such...

> 
> and a corresponding
> 
> Command: Shorter Staffs
> No Tooltip yet
> Location: Object Menu ▶ Staffs/Voices ▶ Display Effects
> Internal Name: ShorterStaffs
> 
> It would seem they are in the wrong menu as they affect all the
> staffs
> in the movement.

I've moved them to the movement menu now.

Richard