Re: moving individual bar numbers / 'padding' beginning of bar?

[Robin Bannister]

jo.clarinet wrote:
> do padding of some sort - 
> either to get just the relevant bar numbers moved up a little 
> (but NOT the rest of them) 

Follow the reference to BarNumber in the Notation Reference [1] index. 
This talks mostly about moving sideways (using self-alignment-X). 
But you probably want what is mentioned further down 
> the padding property of BarNumber can be used 
> to position the number correctly. 
Follow this through to "BarNumber" in the Internal Reference. 


To change this for just one bar number, you say (in the previous bar)

 \once \override Score.BarNumber #'padding = #1.0
 
and play around with the value at the end, e.g. try #0.5


[1] http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/index.

Cheers,
Robin