Re: 2 Questions: spacing-increment and bar numbers

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> On Mar 24, 2004, at 8:52 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 
> > address@hidden writes:
> 
> >> I am using Lilypond 2.1.28 on Mac OS X 10.3.2.  I can't manually set
> >> the horizontal spacing of my music.  The example given in the
> >> reference manual,
> >>
> >>    \paper { \translator  {
> >>        \ScoreContext SpacingSpanner \override #'spacing-increment = 
> >> #3.0
> >>    } }
> >>
> >> does not work for me.  I also tried putting a \set before
> >> "SpacingSpanner" and removing the \override, but neither of these
> >> seemed to work.
> 
> > Can you try printing your piece with raggedright, to check if the
> > "natural" space is made bigger?
> 
> I'm not sure what you're asking.  Do you want me to use the code 
> fragment
> I provided, /and/ set raggedright?  That wouldn't work, because 
> Lilypond dies
> once it encounters the code I gave above.

oh, sorry - you're reporting a bug in the manual. I've fixed it; it
should be

       \override SpacingSpanner #'spacing-increment = .. 

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