Re: Issue 1785 in lilypond: Compressible space before the first note of a line ?

[lilypond]

Comment #6 on issue 1785 by address@hidden: Compressible space before  
the first note of a line ?
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1785

There are 'internal' properties (undocumented and probably not meant to be  
adjusted) that determine the compressibility independently depending on  
what is the last symbol before the notes.

These properties are part of the 'space-alist's defined in define-grobs.scm  
and the entries can be fixed or semi-fixed.  Since they are not documented  
you have to study staff-spacing.cc to see how they work.  Also, the code  
has not changed much since 2002 so the way things are done might seem  
strange.

I think we should move any discussion, about how the system works, over to  
lilypond-devel.

I raised this bug only to warn people that I intend to restore the  
before-first-note space back to its former firmness.