> In the upcoming release of Abjad’s docs, my workaround has been to > add transparent markup “struts” above notes in the top system, [...]
Nice idea! For multi-system cropped output this is a good temporary workaround IMHO. > Knowing all this, would it be possible to allow for a > non-system-packing version of -dcrop? I hope that some of the more powerful LilyPond developers find time and interest to fix this in the not too distant future. You might help us with submitting a bug report, BTW – it seems that the problem has been discussed on the mailing list(s) but I can't find something related in lilypond's issue database. Werner