Re: accidentaled notes too far from the barline

[Keith OHara]

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:46:08 +0000 Neil Puttock:
> 2011/2/14 Janek WarchoÅ :
> > The amount of whitespace after the barline is fixed, while it should depend
> > on whether the first note in the measure has an accidental or not. This
> > results in notes being too far from the barline, especially when there is
> > only one note in measure:
>
> Have you tried fiddling with BarLine #'space-alist?  Changing the
> next-note entry to use minimum-fixed-space appears to deliver the
> goods:

If you want to let the accidental come closer to the barline, without 
increasing 'fixed-space to every note after a bar-line, and are willing to 
recompile, you can try the patch at http://codereview.appspot.com/4188051/  
(The patch removes code that changes the effect of #'space-alist for some 
notes.)
-Keith