Re: some padding properties broken in 2.1.16 and 2.1.17?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
>
> > > I don't think this is the problem: all the objects are tuned only once.
> >
> > It's still broken with \set instead of \override.  The attached file 
> > produces the same results with 2.1.17 as before.
> >
> > Also there is again no space after a key signature unless there is a 
> > time signature.  This doesn't look very good and can be confusing to 
> > read.  I'm back to 2.1.14 until I have workarounds or until it's fixed.
> >
> > As always thanks for all of your great work here,
>
>
> Try setting staff-padding.


What has staff-padding to do with the spacing betwen the key signature
and the first note on a line? I did some experiments with the example in
Pauls first email on the problem,
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-01/msg00684.html
The problem appears when you have a key signature with many sharps or
flats, as the d flat major in this example. I tried playing with the
values in space-alist in KeySignature and it seems that the spacing
to the first-note doesn't work that well. I expected it to specify the
spacing from the right edge of the key signature to the first note, but
it rather seems to be related to the space from the left edge (which
doesn't make sense since the width of the key signature depends on the
key). So, if I increase the spacing to the first note to 6.5, I can
make Pauls example look right (even with c flag major) but then the
spacing is far too large in f major, for example. Changing from
fixed-space to extra-space didn't help either (I never exactly
understood how these work, even though the names are intuitive).


   /Mats