Thank you both, Kieren and Carl. For now, I’ve added a manual tweak to
evenFooterMarkup per Kieren’s guidance:
evenFooterMarkup = \markup {
\unless \on-last-page-of-part \fill-line { \fromproperty
#'page:page-number-string "" }
\if \on-page #2 \vspace #1
\if \on-last-page-of-part \column {
\fill-line { \fromproperty #'header:tagline }
\fill-line { \fromproperty #'page:page-number-string "" }
}
But I share Kieren’s hope that someone might be able to solve these
problems in an “automagic” way, as I think most engravers in most cases
would want to avoid all collisions between StaffGroup / ChoirStaff brackets
and any other visible “ink” on the page.
On Tue, 23 Dec 2025, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> In your case, I would add an if to your titling block that added some
> padding above those page numbers where the collision is occurring.
>
> Sorry I don’t have a more automagic solution to offer — maybe someone else
> will finally solve BOTH our [related] problems!? :)
>
