Re: feature request: semi-automatic vertical spacement

[Trevor Bača]

On 1/11/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> Trevor Bača wrote:
> >>   The pagebreak/linebreak/stretching is put into an alist, and stored
> >>   with the system in a table
> >
> > ... will it also be possible to set the *absolute* page position of
> > each staff (and therefore each system) on a page-by-page basis (by
> > means of some reference point, possibly the bottom staffline of each
> > staff)? Something like:
> >
> > page 1:
> >
> >   system 3:
> >      staff 2, bottom staffline: 29.92 cm from page-bottom
> >      staff 1, bottom staffline: 26.24 cm from page-bottom
>
>
> > Perhaps absolute positioning might not be the right way to go, but it
> > would certainly help me vertically fix staves exactly where I want
> > them on the page. If absolute positioning doesn't fit with the model,
> > then that's certainly ok; but if we can think of a good, lily-esque
> > way of adding absolute positioning during the proposed refactoring,
> > then I'd certainly be interested in helping fund the work.
>  >
> > (Or maybe this is already possible some other way and I just haven't
> > researched hard enough; if so, please ignore the request.)
>
> Of course it's possible, you just have to write loads of Scheme code :-)
>
> I can look into this. Shall I make a combined quote for refactoring the
> pagelayout to do both automatic stretching and absolute positioning?

Yes, please. If the absolute adjustments wind up being considerably
more complicated than the relative (stretching) adjustments, then
maybe you can also quote separately so that Nicolas and I (and perhaps
others in the group) can help divide up the costs.



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Trevor Bača
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