+
+ Note that we don't actually pack things as tightly as possible:
+ we don't allow the next column to begin before this one ends.
+ */
+ /* FIXME: the else clause below is the "right" thing to do,
+ but we can't do it because of all the empty columns that the
+ ligature-engravers leave lying around. In that case, the extent of
+ the column is incorrect because it includes note-heads that aren't
+ there. We get around this by only including the column extent if
+ the left-hand column is "genuine". This is a dirty hack and it
+ should be fixed in the ligature-engravers. --jneem