Re: Constraining widths of layout objects (TimeSignature)

[Hanns Holger Rutz]

I've got it:

    \context { \Score
      \override TimeSignature #'X-extent = #'(0 . 3)
    }

that does it.

and I think this is the file I was looking for:

    http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/internals/grob_002dinterface

best, .h.h.


On 4 Apr 2013, at 16:29, David Nalesnik wrote:

> Hi Hanns,
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Hanns Holger Rutz <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm staring at
> 
>     
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Size-of-objects#Size-of-objects
> 
> (A little off-topic: this is a rather old version of LilyPond.  Current 
> stable is 2.16.2.  There have been many many improvements.)
>  
> 
> 
> but there is no information about how to constrain the width of objects. I 
> would like to adjust the width of a time signature. I randomly tried
> 
>     \score {
>       \new RhythmicStaff {
>         \override Staff.TimeSignature #'minimum-length = #23
>         \set Staff.instrumentName = \markup { \char ##x00D7 1/4 }
>         \time 1/16
>         \times 2/3 {
>             c'32  c'32  c'32
>         }
>       }
>     }
> 
> but that doesn't seem to have any effect. I have independent scores with 
> different time signatures, and they must have all the same layout width.
> 
> I'm not clear on what you want here: do you mean that the stencil of a time 
> signature like 2/4 would be stretched horizontally so it occupies the same 
> space as a signature like 17/16, or do you mean that the following notes 
> would begin at the same position?
>  
> 
> where would I look up all the possible overrides for Staff.TimeSignature?
> 
> For 2.12, you can find information here:
>  
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/TimeSignature#TimeSignature
> 
> --David