Re: Actually forcing some horizontal space between two notes

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi all,

>> It would be very useful sometimes to be able to tell Lilypond something
>> like: "Regardless of any other considerations, make sure that the
>> second note is at least 3 staff-spaces to the right of the first note."
>> 
>> Can this be done?
> 
> Quite frankly: no, currently not, or I’d be very surprised about depths so 
> hidden that nobody yet came up and told us about them.

Is this not what you’re talking about?

\version "2.19.25"

test = {
 c''4 4 4 4
 \override NoteHead.extra-spacing-width = #'(0 . 10)
 c''4 4 4 4
}

\score { \test }

Hope that helps,
Kieren.
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