Re: 2.15.22 Regtests

[David Kastrup]

"address@hidden" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Dec 18, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> 
>>> Uh, in particular the "wahh" looks totally horrible.  It is one thing to
>>> go over the bar line.  It is another to run into the next name without a
>>> modicum of padding.
>> 
>> Agreed — I actually prefer the ability (i.e., option) for the chord
>> name to hang over the barline, but padding is definitely required
>> before the next chord name.
>
> There are a few ways to get the padding.
> You can add an extra-spacing-width of #'(0 . 0.3).
> You can also add the Bar_line_engraver to the ChordNames context if
> you don't like the bar-line hangover and then make the bar-line
> Y-extent '(0 . 0) and the BarLine transparent.

Can we agree that Lilypond's defaults should not look awful?  It is nice
to be able to tweak the output in case of unforeseeable emergencies, but
I think we can more or less agree that the use case in the regtest is
nothing out of the ordinary.

-- 
David Kastrup