right bearing of meter signs

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> A quite serious problem with LilyPond in situations where the
> available horizontal space is quite small: The right bearing of meter
> signs appears to be fixed and thus much too big (see attached image).
> IMHO, it should become smaller in such situations.  Looking into the
> feta-nummer fonts I see that the glyphs already have zero right
> bearing.  So my question is how can I control this?  Ideally, LilyPond
> should do this automatically...

try the space-alist property of TimeSignature, and add

    (next-note . (semi-fixed-space AMOUNT))

Or somesuch; check the define-grobs.scm for examples. This is what
BarLine has:

                        (first-note . (fixed-space . 1.3))
                        (next-note . (semi-fixed-space . 1.3))

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