Re: AccidentalPlacement ignores left-padding

[Neil Puttock]

2008/11/20 Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>:
> Yes! I reported this back in
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-01/msg00297.html
> but it seems that it never made it to the bug tracker.
> Looking at the source code, it's clear that LilyPond does something with the
> value of left-padding,
> but I haven't looked in sufficient detail to figure out what it does and why
> it doesn't do what it
> should.

The left-padding is added to the X-extent, which appears to be
completely redundant (setting it to any value has no effect on
spacing).  Rather weirdly, the default for X-extent is
ly:axis-group-interface::width, but this never gets called, since it's
always overridden in accidental-placement.cc.

Regards,
Neil