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Re: footnote marks not included in skylines


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: footnote marks not included in skylines
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 10:57:19 +0200
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Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:

> Le 27/04/2021 à 07:28, Werner LEMBERG a écrit :
>
>> Right now, the NR section on footnotes looks very ugly.  Reason is
>> that footnote marks are not included in skylines; as a consequence,
>> they are cut off, see attached images.  (BTW, it seems that this fact
>> is not mentioned in the documentation.)
>>
>> Do you have suggestions how the samples in the NR can be improved to
>> avoid this cut-off?
>
>
> Hi Werner,
>
> I think this is more-or-less expected: we don't want footnotes to
> influence the spacing of the music in general, especially horizontal
> spacing.  As to vertical spacing, I don't really know. Maybe they
> ought to be part of the system's skylines, but should we let them
> reserve space between systems?
>
> Cross-staff objects suffer from a similar problem:
>
> <<
>   \new Staff = "up" { s4 }
>   \new Staff = "down" {
>     \stemUp
>     \override Beam.positions = #'(17 . 17)
>     a16 b
>     \change Staff = "up"
>     c' d'
>   }
>>>

"Cross-staff" means "reserve no skyline".  It should really be more
specific, like "no skyline between systems x and y" because the _outer_
skylines should still be affected.  Not sure how this related to
footnote numbers.

-- 
David Kastrup



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