Documentation of horizontal spacing

Hello! Sometimes Lilypond can run a bit wider than engraved scores would do. The official way to mitigate this (as given by the Documentation) is setting Score.SpacingSpanner.base-shortest-duration. Sometimes this does not give the result we want, so we need to use different spacing parameters

Re: Documentation of horizontal spacing

> Le 10/08/2021 13:30, Valentin Petzel a écrit : > > > Hello! > > Sometimes Lilypond can run a bit wider than engraved scores would do. The > official way to mitigate this (as given by the Documentation) is setting > Score.SpacingSpanner.base-shortest-duration. Sometimes this does not give the

Why the whole bar rests wider and can't I change the width?

\version "2.22.1" { \clef bass \time 5/4 r8 r16. g32 f32 a32 d32 a32 r8 r2 r4 r1 r4 r2 f32 d32 g32 a,32 a32 r16. r4 r4 r1 r4 } % The whole bar rests below are too wide. { \clef bass \time 5/4 r8 r16. g32 f32 a32 d32 a32 r8 r2 r4 R4*5 r2 f32 d32 g32 a,32 a32 r16. r4 r4 R4*5 }