Re: beginning-of-measure padding value?

[Joe Neeman]

On Monday 18 June 2007 19:26, Joe Neeman wrote:
> On Monday 09 April 2007 20:38, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> > [ Lilypond 2.11.12 ; Mac OS X 10.4.9 ]
> >
> > Hello, all!
> >
> > In recent versions of Lilypond, 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").
>
> I've had some lilypond hacking time recently, so I've been digging into the
> spacing code. The stuff I'm trying to do is nowhere near complete and I
> don't yet understand the code fully, but I've put what I have so far in
> the "jneeman" branch of the git repository. If anyone is sufficiently
> motivated and technically able to build lilypond from git, I'd appreciate
> some feedback on the spacing changes.

To follow this up, I just merged my spacing stuff into the main branch. That 
means that the new code will be present in version 2.11.28. Once it is 
released, it would be a big help if people could test the spacing stuff and 
find bugs. Of course, those of you following git can do so straight away.