On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Janek Warchoł <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Joe Neeman <joenee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There are two competing desires here: you want the systems to be spaced > > more-or-less evenly (ie. with a similar amount of space between the > staves), > > and you want the white space between the systems to be more-or-less > uniform. > > Currently, we give you three parameters to play with in order to achieve > the > > best trade-off: basic-distance (to make the staff-staff distance > uniform), > > minimum-distance and padding (to make the white space more uniform). It > > seems that you can't find settings for these parameters that gives you > > consistently good results across different systems. Could you suggest, > > therefore, an extra parameter (or a modification to the algorithm) that > > would give you the trade-off you want? > > I can. > I've been thinking about this for a long time; i wanted to refine my > idea before posting it on the list, but as the subject appeared on > it's own i will take the opportunity to discuss it. > In my opinion we should calculate the actual whitespace area between > objects (systems, staves, lyrics, anything) using vertical skyline > integrals. The spacing algorithm should then try to space the lines > so that the "whitespace area" between lines is similar. > I hope that the attachment Did you forget something?
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