Re: Vertically overlapping material / too small vertical space

[Phil Holmes]

I think the use of  \context is getting the vertical spacing engine 
confused.  I _think_ my attached version of your music does what you want - 
it would seem to point in the right direction, at the very least.

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Phil Holmes


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mojca Miklavec" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: Vertically overlapping material / too small vertical space


Hi,

I'm also attaching a "quasi-minimal" example (if a full page may even
be called "minimal").

Mojca

(please CC me)

On 30 November 2016 at 12:06, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask for a bit of a guidance. I sometimes end up with
> the scores as you see in the attachment. There's simply not enough
> vertical space between staves and text is overlapping very badly.
>
> I can attach the complete example (or perhaps come up with some
> "\repeat unfold ..." trick to compose a full page that more or less
> reproduces the problem), but it's basically the same type of scores as
> I used anywhere else in
>     https://github.com/mojca/frajtonarca/tree/master/tablature/avtorske
>
> On the example in the screenshot you see the following elements in one 
> stave:
>
> - button names are two lines of Lyrics attached on top of the melody
> - Voice with the main melody
> - accordion push spanner
> - RhythmicStaff
> - FiguredBass
>
> I didn't even try to touch the spacing inside the scores. The only
> part where the code is messing up with vertical spacing is here:
>
> https://github.com/mojca/frajtonarca/blob/master/tablature/accordion.ily
> in accordionPushSpannerEngraver (written by David Nalesnik) which is
> something that I don't fully understand myself. But in theory it
> should not affect distances between different staves, it should only
> control the distance between main melody, push spanner event and the
> basses.
>
> I was looking at
> - http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/vertical-spacing
> - 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-paper-variables
>
> etc. and found some ugly workarounds to fix the problem (I can create
> a manual page break; add artificial invisible marks; increase the
> spacing between staves – which will result in too big space even when
> I don't have any button names / lyrics above the melody and that looks
> ugly; ...), but I wonder if this issue with vertical spacing is:
>
> (a) a bug in lilypond
> (b) a bug in the code that handles accordion push events
> (c) something that's super difficult to fix anywhere and I should be
> using workarounds anyway
>
> I can provide more information if needed, but I'll need a bit more 
> guidance.
>
> Thank you,
>     Mojca



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