Re: Regression: spacing single full-bar notes with ragged-right=##f

[Neil Puttock]

2009/8/25 Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>:

> I'd forgotten that news item, but the extra space seems to be
> too large.  I've checked the scores of three publishers and all
> of them position a single note in a bar close to the left bar
> line.  One of the LilyPond examples I showed positioned the
> note almost in the centre of the measure - surely that cannot
> be correct.

Hmm, with current git, the first 1/4 bar is even worse: the crotchet
is positioned in the last third of the bar's width; furthermore, it's
not possible to correct this by overriding 'full-measure-extra-space
unless you use negative values.

> Furthermore, the positioning in the first measure of every line is
> different to the rest of the measures on the line.  The first bar is
> correct, I believe, but surely the positioning should be consistent.

Yes, I've noticed that before; I'm not sure whether that is by design though.

Looking in spacing-spanner.cc, it appears that the criterion for the
extra space is that the paper column to the left of the SpacingSpanner
has a break status of CENTER, which explains why the first bar in each
system doesn't get any extra space.

Regards,
Neil