Re: beginning-of-measure padding value?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> [ Lilypond 2.11.12 ; Mac OS X 10.4.9 ]
>
> Hello, all!
>
> In recent versions of Lilypond, 
Could you be more specific. Are you talking about recent 2.11.x versions 
or ...?
> I find that the first element of every measure is generally too close 
> to the preceding barline for my taste -- i.e., there isn't enough 
> left-padding on the first note or rest or whatever (n.b., the spacing 
> issue is especially egregious when the first item is an accidental, 
> arpeggio, or other "note attachment").
After some search, I noticed that the fix to 
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=10
included the following change:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=commitdiff;h=4882689987e5f33926fff2cbee0dced4d5de9c7c#patch7
which might be what you have reacted on.
To get the previous value of this specific setting, you can do
 \override Score.BarLine #'space-alist = #'(
                       (time-signature . (extra-space . 0.75))
                       (custos . (minimum-space . 2.0))
                       (clef . (minimum-space . 1.0))
                       (key-signature . (extra-space . 1.0))
                       (key-cancellation . (extra-space . 1.0))
                       (first-note . (fixed-space . 1.3))
                       (next-note . (semi-fixed-space . 1.3)) % Changed 
from the new default 0.9
                       (right-edge . (extra-space . 0.0)))


   /Mats