Hi Thomas,
Try this perhaps.
[You have to retain clefs and barlines and render them transparent, so that they exist to reference off. One ought to be able to just set the value (key-signature extra-space . 8) say, but I am not sure why we need the whole shebang alist.]
Andrew
== snip
\version "2.19.56"
\paper { indent = 0 }
\score {
\relative c'' {
\override Staff.KeySignature.stencil = #point-stencil
\override Staff.Clef.stencil = #point-stencil
\override Staff.BarLine.transparent = ##t
\key a \major
\stemUp
%
b8 b c c d d e e f f g g a a b b
\break
b,, b c c d d e e f f g g a a b b
}
\layout {
\context {
\Score
\remove Bar_number_engraver
}
\context {
\Staff
\remove Time_signature_engraver
\override Clef.space-alist =
#'((ambitus extra-space . 2.0)
(breathing-sign minimum-space . 0.0)
(cue-end-clef extra-space . 0.8)
(clef extra-space . 0.8)
(cue-clef extra-space . 0.8)
(staff-bar extra-space . 0.0)
(key-cancellation extra-space . 0.0)
(key-signature extra-space . 8)
(time-signature extra-space . 1.0)
(custos extra-space . 0.0)
(first-note fixed-space . 0.0)
(right-edge extra-space . 0.0))
}
}
}
== snip