Re: Adjusting horizontal space from notehead to bar line

[Matthew Fong]

Hello Hans, LilyPonders,

Thank you! I added the line to my Staff context, and everything worked as expected.

\override BarLine.space-alist.next-note = #'(fixed-space . 1.2)

I wanted to refine the solution and add space only *after* double-bar lines, but adding the following to my bars doesn't seem to have any effect

\once \override BarLine.space-alist.next-note = #'(fixed-space . 1.2)

My bars section (separate from note input)

\skip 1*16/4 \once \override BarLine.space-alist.next-note = #'(fixed-space . 1.2) \bar "||"

\skip 1*16/4 \once \override BarLine.space-alist.next-note = #'(fixed-space . 1.2) \bar "||"

\skip 1*16/4 \once \override BarLine.space-alist.next-note = #'(fixed-space . 1.2) \bar "||"

\skip 1*8/4 \once \override BarLine.space-alist.next-note = #'(fixed-space . 1.2) \bar "||"

Many thanks,

mattfong

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 11:52 AM Hans Aikema <hans.aikema@aikebah.net> wrote:

On 23 Aug 2021, at 17:42, Matthew Fong <oxengen@gmail.com> wrote:



Hello fellow Lilyponders,

I'm looking around the documentation on NoteHead to Barline spacing, and I'm not finding much? Any pointers will be helpful. 

My goal is to add a bit more space from the first note to the last Barline, for every measure. It seems a bit too close even with the staff size and LyricText size I am using. For example, the F for 'splen' in third measure, or the A for 'Life' after the double bar.

Many thanks,

mattfong

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Matthew,

Never played with layout tweaking myself, but gut feel is you should be able to achieve extra spacing with modification of the space-alist of the barline (spacing for 'first-note' and/or 'next-note')

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/internals/barline

kind regards,

Hans