Re: Patch: issue #659

[Marc Hohl]

Hi Alexander,

Alexander Kobel schrieb:
> > > [...]
>
> I just noticed that the 'extra-offset won't influence the spacing of 
> the notes before the bar line.  The better property to tweak should be 
> the right-edge extra space, but this does not work if the line ends 
> prematurely.  (See the attached example.)
> Still, like Trevor I'm not sure why modifying the X-extent does not 
> work - this should be the favourite option, theoretically equivalent 
> to another glyph without positive width, right?
Playing around with your code example, it seems that overriding the 
X-extent seems to work, so we can
use that. I would left this decision to the user, perhaps we could 
mention this in the docs once the
whole segno story has settled down.

Greetings,

Marc

\paper { ragged-last = ##t }

\relative c'' {
  c4^"no tweaks"
  \repeat unfold 31 c4
  \bar "S." \break

  c4^"no tweaks"
  \repeat unfold 31 c4
  \bar "S." \break

  c4^"extra-offset"
  \repeat unfold 31 c4
  \once \override Staff . BarLine #'extra-offset = #'(1 . 0)
  \bar "S." \break

  c4^"X-extent"
  \repeat unfold 31 c4
  \once \override Staff . BarLine #'X-extent = #'(-1 . 0)
  \bar "S."  \break
  
  c4^"right-edge extra-space"
  \repeat unfold 31 c4
  \once \override Staff . BarLine #'space-alist #'right-edge = #'(extra-space . 
-1)
  \bar "S." \break

  c4^"right-edge extra-space (with \stopStaff)"
  \repeat unfold 11 c4
  \once \override Staff . BarLine #'space-alist #'right-edge = #'(extra-space . 
-1)
  \bar "S." \stopStaff s1 \bar "" \break \startStaff

  c4^"X-extent (with \stopStaff)"
  \repeat unfold 11 c4
  \once \override Staff . BarLine #'X-extent = #'(-1 . 0)
  \bar "S." \stopStaff s1 \bar "" \break \startStaff

  c4^"right-edge extra-space (with ragged-last = ##t)"
  \repeat unfold 11 c4
  \once \override Staff . BarLine #'space-alist #'right-edge = #'(extra-space . 
-1)
  \bar "S."
}