Re: elastic space between staves

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> > What you are suggesting is -in effect- copying the horizontal
> > spacing to the vertical spacing as well.  For this to work, all
> > vertical spacing code has to be split in two: calculate rods
> > (minimum distances) and springs (elastic distances), and then the
> > vertical spacing pass must be mingled with page breaking.
> 
> Perhaps a misunderstand: I suggest a much simpler solution, namely to
> have equal vertical space between all staves so that lilypond's
> vertical space computation can stay unchanged:

There is no such a thing as 

>   \hbox{staff 1, system 1}
>   \interstaffskip
>   \hbox{staff 2, system 1}

Lilypond places the system as one object (and in 2.3, in fact the
whole page is dupmed as a single stencil).


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