Re: measure numbers and ChoirStaff

[Mats Bengtsson]

Try something like
\property Score.BarNumber \override #'padding = #3

Of course, this should be done automatically when you have
brackets or braces connecting the staves, but at the moment
you have to do it manually.

   /Mats

Arvid Grøtting wrote:
> When typesetting choral music using ChoirStaff, the measure numbers
> collide with the choir staff braces.  (This probably happens whenever
> the upper staves of a system are connected using angular brackets,
> although I haven't tested this much).
>
> Ultimately, this is of course a bug, but is there a simple way to work
> around it?
>
> The measure numbers could be moved a bit up or to the left or right to
> avoid the collision -- I'm afraid I don't have any hand-engraved
> choral music with measure numbering on me right now, so I can't tell
> you what's right.
>
> Minimal, rather contrived example; look at the start of the second
> system:
>
> \version "1.6.9"
>
> tenorIMusic = \notes \relative c {
>   a b c d e f g a
>   a b c d e f g a
>   a b c d e f g a
>   a b c d e f g a
>   a b c d e f g a
> }
>
> \score {
>     \notes
>     \context ChoirStaff <
>         \context Staff = tenori \context Voice = VA { \voiceOne \tenorIMusic }
>     >
> }

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