Re: Mixed Staff Spacing

[Gilles]

> > But I'm still wondering why LilyPond couldn't use the fact that the staff
> > actually occupies less space, and reduce accordingly the inter-staff
> > space...
> 
> It can, but this usually leads to uneven vertical spacing, which
> doesn't look nice.

Yes, it wouldn't look nice.
The _same_ amount should be substracted from all inter-staff space, to
keep them even. [This amount to be determined as the maximum permissible
over the whole score.  That would need some sort of two-pass, which might
be the problem...]


Best regards,
Gilles