Re: Did VerticalAxisGroup default-staff-staff-spacing stop respecting padding in 2.17.10?

[Keith OHara]

Trevor Bača <trevorbaca <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Did VerticalAxisGroup's default-staff-staff-spacing property stop 
> respecting the 'padding' attribute between 2.17.9 and 2.17.10?
> 
> I ask because I use a custom time signature context in my scores.

No, padding still works.  The latest LilyPond misunderstood what you
want with the zero-dimension TimeSignature.

>         \override TimeSignature #'X-extent = #'(0 . 0)
>         \override TimeSignature #'Y-extent = #'(0 . 0)

If can give it some with, the spacing works as I would expect
       \override TimeSignature #'X-extent = #'(0 . 1)

I remember a comment somewhere in the recent code changes about zero-size
stencils "messing up" spacing, possibly alongside code to explicitly ignore
them, but I can't find it now.  It might help if you can say why you wanted
the time signatures to have, conceptually, zero extents.