Re: how to give more horizontal space to the voice follower

[Thomas Morley]

Am Mo., 2. Nov. 2020 um 10:21 Uhr schrieb Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>:
>
>
> >>> Why doesn't the `VoiceFollower` grob obey the `minimum-length`
> >>> property (inspite of supporting the `spanner-interface`)?  What am
> >>> I missing?
> >>
> >> add
> >>
> >>   \override VoiceFollower.springs-and-rods = #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods
>
> What's actually the reason to not have this set by default?  Ditto for
> glissando lines.  My experience is that it is almost always necessary
> increase the length of both grobs in real-world scores.
>
> In case there aren't serious reasons against doing it I suggest to
> change the default; I would also prepare a patch.
>
>
>     Werner

I vaguely remember having #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods the default
caused problems with spacing/line-breaks in some cases.
I'd test very thoroughly.

Cheers,
  Harm