Re: orchestral template, please comment

[Keith E OHara]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:18:52 +0100 "Trevor Daniels" wrote:

> Shouldn't the music for the Horn in F be printed in D major?
I will add a comment "% Key signature is often omitted for horns".
As a user, I can easily insert it if I want it.  The previous version omitted 
this key sig (showing off a nice feature of Lilypond) but with the piece in 
C-major it was hard to notice.


On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 03:25:50 -0700, David Santamauro wrote:

> there should be visual 'space' in addition to
> the grouping itself.

Agreed, but...  Do know a way to do this, in the stable 2.12 version of 
LilyPond, that we can recommend to new users?

The forthcoming 2.14 will have a variable to adjust the space between groups :
  \override StaffGrouper #'after-last-staff-spacing #'padding = #12
(I think the variable names will be revised on the next alpha-test version.) 
Once we figure out how to use this feature in the alpha-version, we need to 
recommend good defaults for the spacing variables.

Then we would get good spacing by default, and not need to put an override in 
this snippet.


P.S. Thanks Phil and Reinhold for letting people actually see the snippet
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=719