On 15/11/20 14:53, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> I appreciate that you have given a nuanced response. Practically >> speaking, the vast majority of scores only have bar numbers at the >> beginning of a line, so I will simplistically categorise your response >> as in favour of keeping LilyPond's current behaviour. > > I would very much like that LilyPond has the ability of automatically > adjusting the horizontal position of some grobs, in particular dynamic > signs, bar numbers, and rehearsal marks. The idea is that a large > delta from the optimum vertical position would make LilyPond retry to > horizontally position the grob within some delta (say, ±2 notehead > widths) from the 'correct' position. If the grob can then be moved > (much) nearer to the standard vertical position, LilyPond should use > this adjusted horizontal position. > Plus 100 !!!
You know I moan about that regularly - page real estate is very valuable to me and pushing grobs vertically wastes so much ... I was told, unfortunately, that that will actually be very difficult to implement :-( Cheers, Wol
