On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Nick Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13/09/10 12:22, Christopher Meredith wrote: >> >> Searched the manual and LSR to no avail. I'm using words for stanza >> numbers and they end up on top of the barline. I want to space over >> the first note in the measure to give some extra room but don't know >> how. Is there something equivalent to /hspace I can use in the voice >> context to just add extra empty space before a note? >> > > You can modify the amount of horizontal space the barline uses. eg: > > \version "2.13.33" > > barspace = #(define-music-function (parser location extent) (pair?) #{ > \once \override Staff.BarLine #'extra-spacing-width = #$extent > #}) > > \relative c'' { > \repeat unfold 2 { c4 c c c } > \barspace #'(0 . 3) > c c c c > \barspace #'(-3 . 5) > c c c c > } > > Nick
This is genius, thanks! In my application, the space I needed to create is in the first measure of the system so the BarLine didn't work. I changed "Staff.BarLine" to "Staff.Clef" and bingo, I'm all set. Thanks again! _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
