Re: bar numbers at beginning of bar - partial solution

[Paul Scott]

Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> > I just searched through the docs and I don't find the meaning of 
> > X-extent.
> > What does it mean?  What does the above do?
>
> Google
>     X-extent site:lilypond.org/doc/v2.12
>
> [Hint to everyone: using the 'site' Google-keyword is a great method 
> of searching the docs!]
>
> The first hit is
>    
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/grob_002dinterface> 
>
>
> The first property description on that page is:
>      "X-extent (pair of numbers) Hard coded extent in X direction."

I had no trouble finding X-extent in the docs.  Reading that did not 
tell me what X-extent meant.

> So the command I suggested simply convinces the spacing engine 
> BarNumbers have no width. 

That helps me make sense of what X-extent means.

Thanks,

Paul