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.aik...@aikebah.net> wrote: > > > On 23 Aug 2021, at 17:42, Matthew Fong <oxen...@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 > > <NoteheadSpacingToBarline.png> > > > 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 >