Re: one-pass vertical stretching

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Joe Neeman escreveu:
> On 1/21/07, *Han-Wen Nienhuys* <address@hidden
> <mailto: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 <http://engraver-init.ly>, every staff
> overrides minimum-Y-extent.

This might have been from a time that we didn't have such advanced vertical 
spacing. IIRC, the purpose of Staff minimum-Y-exent was to ensure a modicum 
of even space in case of single-staff 
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