Re: beginning-of-measure padding value?

[Trevor Bača]

On 4/10/07, Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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)))

Hi Kieren, hi Mats,

As long as we're somewhat on the topic, how do we get more space
before the first note of each *line* (as opposed to each measure)?

Here's an example:

%%% BEGIN %%%

\version "2.11.20"

\new Score \with {
  \override 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 . 10.3)
     (next-note semi-fixed-space . 10)
     (right-edge extra-space . 0.0))
} {
  \new Staff {
     c'4 c'4 c'4 c'4
     d'4 d'4 d'4 d'4
  }
}

%%% END %%%

There's more space before the ds (because of next-note); but how can
we get more space before the cs?

(Side question: isn't there some way to set individual pairs in an
alist separately? I seem to remember there being a way to do that, but
can't find anything on a quick manual scan.)


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Trevor Bača
address@hidden