Perfect! I thought it would be called padding. Appreciate the response.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 3:07 AM Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> wrote:
> On 2021-08-25 7:36 am, Ernie Braganza wrote:
> > When I use the parenthesizeMusic function or the snippet in LSR-902
> > with a
> > winged repeat bar, the parenthesis collides with the bar. I have not
> > been
> > able to find a way to pad the bar or the parentheses in a way that
> > avoids
> > this.
> > [in this code I could simply reduce the font size, but that does not
> > fix
> > the issue in my score]
> >
> > \relative c''
> > {
> > \override ParenthesesItem.font-size = 7
> > \override ParenthesesItem.extra-offset =
> > #(lambda (grob) (cons 0 (* -1/2 (ly:grob-staff-position grob))))
> > g2 r4
> > \parenthesizeMusic {
> > d'8 bes8
> > }
> > \bar":|]"
> > }
>
> It is possible to add some padding to the BarLine:
>
> %%%%
> \once \override Staff.BarLine.extra-spacing-width = #'(-2 . 0)
> \bar ":|]"
> %%%%
>
>
> -- Aaron Hill
>
