Re: Chord name spacing problems

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> Just thought I'd post this again. I didn't get any response to the
> first posting, and it's really bugging me. I've tried all I can. Please
> help me!
> 
> > With the attached fragment, the chord names bump into each other; I'm
> > using lily 2.0.0 (but it happens with lily 2.1.0 as well). In prior
> > versions (think lily 1.4.0), I could get around this by using
> >     ChordName \override #'word-space = #2
> > in the ChordNamesContext translator. However, this doesn't work as I want,
> > since it spaces the whole chord name (including inversions). What I really
> > want to do is to force a small amount of space between chords
> > (e.g. between "E/G#" and "A"), but keep the interspacing the same
> > (i.e. leave "E/G#" as it is).


Hi,

I added a padding property to SeparatingGroupSpanner in 2.1 CVS, which
should fix this problem.

(sorry for taking so long to respond I erroneously thought there
already was such a property.)


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