Re: Controlling the very first bit of "preferatory" spacing?

[Trevor Bača]

On 2/15/07, Maximilian Albert <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> In this rhythmic snippet, the "perferatory" spacing on only the very
> >> first system collapses down to nothing (compared to the remaining
> >> three systems). Is there any way to control this amount of
> >> system-initial spacing and make it equal that of the remaining three
> >> systems?
> >
> > Aha. The solution is to \remove Separating_line_group_engraver in the
> > Staff context.
>
> I guess that's probably how Trevor found this solution, but just for the
> record: Looking for more information on the above-mentioned
> Separating_line_group_engraver, I have just discovered that section
> 8.4.3 of the manual(which is significantly entitled "proportional
> notation" ;)) deals with this issue. It also mentions two other
> overrides which might prove useful to the folks working with
> proportional notation (which I personally have never done). Thanks for
> the hint, Trevor.

Hi Max,

Check chapter 11.4 in the next couple of days for a substantial
expansion of the proportional docs, which goes into a considerable
amount of detail on all of these settings, complete with pairs of
contrasting examples.

Note, too, that the proportional docs are moving out of chapter 8
"Advanced notation" and into chapter 11 "Spacing issues". At least in
the 2.11.x version of the manual ...

Trevor.


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