Re: one-pass vertical stretching

[Nicolas Sceaux]

"Joe Neeman" <address@hidden> writes:

> I've just committed one-pass vertical stretching to branch jneeman. I
> haven't pushed to make web because I haven't yet checked regressions and
> there is a change in behaviour -- it now stretches systems by default.
> Stretching can be tuned by tweaking VerticalAlignment #'max-stretch. If you
> want to tweak the systems individually, you should set VerticalAlignment
> #'max-stretch to zero and use line-break-system-details as before.
>
> What do people think? Should we stretch by default?

Joe you're my hero.

As for what is usually done, I don't have many examples for comparison,
just a Summer Night Dream by Mendelssohn, C.F.Peters, late 19th. But in
this book, vertical stretch is used; lyrics however are always close to
the staff they're linked to, as Trent points out.

nicolas