Re: spacing problem

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > It's not specific to dotted notes but to notes which have longer
>> > durations, and which get squeezed far too much -- the same problem
>> > occurs for, say, half notes and whole notes.  I simply want to
>> > control these squeezing values globally.
>>
>> The spacing is controlled by 2 values in the end: the ideal length
>> of the spring, and the width of the fixed part (the remaining is the
>> stretchable part).  I guess you want to increase the fixed width for
>> these notes (which also decreases the stretching in case of loose
>> lines - the springs are symmetric in stretch and shrink).  You could
>> experiment with
>>
>>   Spacing_spanner::musical_column_spacing
>>
>> to tweak the fixed length.
>
> You mean a factor for base_note_space (at least this is what I
> understand at looking at this code)?  What about making it
> configurable?

It already is to some extent; look at lily/spacing-options.cc


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