Re: one-pass vertical stretching

[Joe Neeman]

On 1/21/07, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:

Joe Neeman escreveu:
> This last one is giving me some problems: I have removed forced-distance
> and collapsed everything into one VerticalAlignment. So now there is no
> way to say something like "the staves of a piano staff should be
> positioned at least 8 units apart". I'd like to do something like
> \override PianoStaff.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-4 . 4)
> but of course it doesn't work because the Staves that are children of
> PianoStaff have their own overrides. Any ideas for how this override
> should be done?

as long as the children don't override minimum-Y-extent, it should work.

But they do. In engraver-init.ly, every staff overrides minimum-Y-extent.