Re: empty left space in measures

[Trevor Daniels]

Kai, you wrote Thursday, October 09, 2014 2:27 PM

> In many of my scores for choral pieces I see an effect, that I could 
> not make a minimal example for. So my question is, if anyone has 
> seen this and could point me towards the usual suspects of reasons for this 
> behaviour.

> Often I see a expanded empty space at the beginning of measures. 
> The measures are engraved with lilypond standard (no tweaks or overrides) and 
> it is obviously not linked to lyrics (I tried leaving them out and changing 
> the 
> length of syllables). I does also not change, if I reduce to one staff or 
> voice. 
> I suspect something linked to chopping the music into measures is the reason, 
> but I have no clue, how to find out more. Maybe it is connected to 
> linebreaking, too. 

No idea.  I think you'll need to post the source of the smallest example you 
can which
shows this effect - no lyrics, one staff, one voice.  And don't forget the 
version!

Trevor