Re: chopin example

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Urs Liska wrote:

>       In the attached example "chopin-example.ly" (two bars from
>       Chopin's Nocturne in C# minor) the horizontal spacing of some of
>       the little notes is ugly. Watch for example in the first bar
>       where the ottava jump starts.
>
>       How can I manually improve this?
>
> You can insert
>
> \once \override Stem #'minimum-X-extent = #'(0 . 0.8)
>
>
> before the a' (of course adjust the numbers to your liking).
> I first tried with NoteHead (which seemed more natural), but that prolonged
> the ledger line too.

Thanks!

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MT