Re: average-spacing-wishes and note too close to barline

[Mats Bengtsson]

madhg wrote:
> Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote:
>   
> > You can workaround your problem by increasing either the semi-fixed-space
> > after next-note  or the left-padding of AccidentalPlacement even more, 
> > but I'm
> > afraid that such a setting may look ugly in other measures where you 
> > don't have
> > this particular combination of a repeat sign followed by an accidental.
> >
> >     
>
> Yes, I tried increasing semi-fixed-space after next-note, but as you say, it
> gave 
> too much space at the beginning of other bars.  
>
> I shouldn't say this here - but I'm starting to feel it would be nice to be
> able to move
> notes around with a mouse!  :-)
>   
The equivalent of moving things with a mouse (i.e. to change the layout 
at a single
specific place) is to make the setting (like the one you tried) with a 
\once before it:
\once \override ...
You can even define a macro
fixSpacingProblem =  \once \override Score.BarLine #'space-alist = #'(
(time-signature . (extra-space . 0.75))
(custos . (minimum-space . 2.0))
(clef . (minimum-space . 1.0))
(key-signature . (extra-space . 1.0))
(key-cancellation . (extra-space . 1.0))
(first-note . (fixed-space . 1.3))
(next-note . (semi-fixed-space . 2.0)) ; Changed from the new default 0.9
(right-edge . (extra-space . 0.0)))

and use it wherever you need:
R1 \fixSpacingProblem \bar ":|"

As you can see, the advantage compared to doing such a setting with a 
mouse is that
you can easily reuse the setting, once you found out how to do it and if 
you want the
spacing somewhat wider or somewhat narrower, you can change the value in 
the
macro definition and it will apply to all places in the score where you 
have used the
macro.

   /Mats