Re: beginning-of-measure padding value?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Joe Neeman escreveu:
> On Monday 09 April 2007 20:38, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> > [ Lilypond 2.11.12 ; Mac OS X 10.4.9 ]
> >
> > Hello, all!
> >
> > In recent versions of Lilypond, I find that the first element of
> > every measure is generally too close to the preceding barline for my
> > taste -- i.e., there isn't enough left-padding on the first note or
> > rest or whatever (n.b., the spacing issue is especially egregious
> > when the first item is an accidental, arpeggio, or other "note
> > attachment").
>
> I've had some lilypond hacking time recently, so I've been digging into the 
> spacing code. The stuff I'm trying to do is nowhere near complete and I don't 
> yet understand the code fully, but I've put what I have so far in 
> the "jneeman" branch of the git repository. If anyone is sufficiently 
> motivated and technically able to build lilypond from git, I'd appreciate 
> some feedback on the spacing changes.

Awesome that you've been able to get your fingers dirty in the spacing 
engine.  You've breached into one of the last domains of the "Han-Wen 
only" code.  Probably only the grace-timing code  in the iterators is 
left as the last outhold of sole Han-Wenness in Lily.

I'm glad to see that many kludges are disappearing, but a little worried 
that there might be subtle spacing corrections that disappear because of 
this. Do pay close attention to the regtest, especially all the 
spacing-*.ly files.

One of the problems of working on the spacing is that it tends to affect 
all tests, making it more difficult to see the effect of a fix.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen