Re: Questions on beaming and barring

[Neil Puttock]

Hi Nick,

> I thing I haven't managed to fix is that the barring indication looks better 
> if both the right- and left-hand ends are extended slightly so that they 
> don't both start and finish centred on a note, like so:
>
> \barre #0.0 "CIV" #'(-0.5 . -1) #10
>
> But this means that a barre that wraps to the following stave now extends 
> slightly beyond the RH end of the beginning stave. I couldn't find the 
> command to fix that.

\override TextSpanner #'bound-details #'right-broken #'padding = #0

I'm afraid the problem with the left alignment after a break is a bug
(see http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=654&q=spanner);
it's been like this ever since the new spanner code was implemented.
As a workaround, you can use the bound-detail 'end-on-note, which was
introduced to align broken trill spanners with the first note after a
break (text spanners and trill spanners use nearly identical code):

\once \override TextSpanner #'bound-details #'left-broken #'end-on-note = ##t

Ideally, the 'left-broken alignment would be the same as for dynamic
text spanners (before the note, but after prefatory breakable items
such as time signatures and clefs), but until this is fixed properly,
a combination of  'end-on-note and 'padding will do.

Regards,
Neil