Re: LP printing problems

[Paul Scott]

Dave Phillips wrote:
> Paul Scott wrote:
>
> > #(set-global-staff-size 21)
> >
> > at the top of each .ly file, where "21" is a global font size which 
> > can be fractional.
>
> Very cool, thanks for the tip.
>
> Since you seem to know about the global settings: The default text 
> font spacing for my 2.8.4 LP is twice as wide as it used to be (this 
> is on a home-built LP under Linux, Debian Etch). What happened ? 
I'm not aware of any recent spacing changes.  Could you produce a very 
short example which shows this behavior with the two different versions?
> Is there a 1-line way to repair this ? I've been adding \markup 
> commands for specific fonts, it's a pain but at least it restores the 
> preferable spacing.
Have you read: 


       10.5.6 Horizontal Spacing

in the 2.8 documentation?

I usually don't have any problem with horizontal spacing.  Sometimes I 
use a line break (\break) to adjust horizontal spacing.  I also commonly 
adjust the width of multi-measure rests with
\override Score.MultiMeasureRest #'minimum-length = #

HTH,

Paul