A weird spacing problem

2020-06-03 Thread Robert Blackstone
Dear all, I’m vainly struggling with a weird spacing problem that I’ve never seen before: the dot belonging to, for instance, c’2. is widely separated from the note itself. (See screenshot). In this section the horizontal note spacing is also rather capricious. ( \time 3/4 for the entire

Re: A weird spacing problem

2020-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/3/20, Robert Blackstone wrote: > I’m vainly struggling with a weird spacing problem Hi Robert, Unless you post some code, it’s gonna be difficult to help you. You should first double check your source files in case there’s some \override affecting the DotColumn object somewhere? Che

Re: A weird spacing problem

2020-06-03 Thread Robert Blackstone
Hi Valentin, Thanks for your interest in my problemThe piece, as you can see in the screenshot, is a piano score with two voices in each staff and occasionally a third voice by << { } \\ { } >> or \partcombine.I triple-checked my source code, first by hiding successively each voice, and see what

RE: A weird spacing problem

2020-06-03 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
, 2020 10:27 AM To: Valentin Villenave Cc: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Re: A weird spacing problem Hi Valentin, Thanks for your interest in my problem The piece, as you can see in the screenshot, is a piano score with two voices in each staff and occasionally a third voice by

Re: A weird spacing problem

2020-06-03 Thread Thomas Morley
the previous bars. > > Thanks again for your interest. > > Best regards, > Robert > > > > On 3 Jun 2020, at 14:14, Valentin Villenave wrote: > > On 6/3/20, Robert Blackstone wrote: > > I’m vainly struggling with a weird spacing problem > > > Hi Robe

Re: A weird spacing problem

2020-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/3/20, Robert Blackstone wrote: > Overall there are several instances where I needed "\once \override > NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #x" , and a few "\once\override > NoteColumn.X-offset = #x”. Ouch. That’s pretty brutal. May I ask why you felt the need to use all these? This alters drastic

Re: A weird spacing problem

2020-06-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 6/3/20, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > When I set piano four part I let Lilypond do all the work. Hear hear! (Even for more than four parts, btw.) > I have taken the liberty of recoding the section using four-part voicing. Yeah, so did I! That sure was tempting wasn’t it? :-) Cheers, -- V.

Re: A weird spacing problem

2020-06-03 Thread Gregory Hollands
hows the problem. It also shows that its origin > does not ly in the previous bars. > Thanks again for your interest. > Best regards, > Robert > > > On 3 Jun 2020, at 14:14, Valentin Villenave > wrote: > On 6/3/20, Robert Blackstone wrote: > Hi Robert, > Unless you post some code, it’s gonna be difficult to help you. You > should first double check your source files in case there’s some > \override affecting the DotColumn object somewhere? > Cheers, > -- V. I’m vainly struggling with a weird spacing problem