Trevor Daniels wrote > While browsing the Learning Manual I noticed the last example in Section > 3.4.4 > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/saving-typing-with-variables-and-functions > displays a fault. It is intended to show the use of 'padding to displace > TextScript, but > the script is not displaced. The example is still incorrect in the latest > 2.17.7 manual, > but I don't know when it went wrong. Possibly the new skyline code > packing things > closer together? > > I've not yet raised a bug report as I don't know whether this behaviour is > now > intended, so I didn't know whether to classify it as a code bug or a > documentation > issue. > > Comments?
I've often misunderstood what /padding/ is really meaning: - keep that distance above the last object/item/whatever (the normal staff?) - add this distance to what has already been calculated and my understanding now is: - keep at least that distance from the normal upper staff line (and not from the topmost note) usually the collision avoiding mechanism moves a text script upwards sufficiently - only if you want surplus vertical space above the ledgered lines you have to add more padding space (and this will be counted from the normal upper staff line) btw - the section you mention wants to explain how to use variables - maybe the example(s) are a little bit unlucky? Eluze -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Problem-with-padding-and-TextScript-tp135878p135879.html Sent from the Bugs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond