On Thu, 2025-11-20 at 23:31 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote: > Hi Richard, > > On 19.11.25 16:57, Richard Shann wrote: > > for no apparent reason. > > this is a perfectly normal situation, so it’s a stark accusation that > LilyPond’s developers didn’t set this spacing intentionally. oh, sorry if it sounded like a complaint. Werner wrote indicating that he thought it looked well and was helpful in large scores. As I recalled reading that LilyPond wasn't trying to default to contemporary practice but to "golden age hand engraving" practice, I did spend some time reading through the philosophy section of the LilyPond website and then trying to dig out some "golden age of hand engraving" examples - I got the attached one from a 1930's edition, and it seemed to me that there was indeed a slight bit of extra space after the key signature change but not(*) as much as in the LilyPond example I posted. This all arose actually from a correspondent of mine who reported a player stumbling over the music at that point because (it seemed to them) the following note had so much extra spacing. No stark accusation was in my mind, honestly, I was guessing it was something that had never been tweaked. And I do get feedback that the scores generated by Denemo are the finest the musicians have seen and I have to point out that it is down to LilyPond, not Denemo :)
Best wishes Richard (*) I wonder actually if it isn't down to the fact that in my example the note after the key change is a wholenote/semibreve rather than a smaller duration, but I couldn't find an example of that... it could be that the spacing would ideally be sensitive to that. > I haven’t > studied this specific issue and can’t give context from memory, but > I’d > very much assume it’s in accordance with best practice. > > So your stark accusation would require stark evidence, and reference > to > stark authority, that it should be done differently. > > Best, Simon
