Re: Accidentals and Ledger Lines

[Malte Meyn]

[Forwarding to bug-lilypond]

Hi foxfanfare,

Am 05.09.18 um 11:07 schrieb foxfanfare:
> As you can see, the ledger line of the note containing the accidental is
> shortned as expected, but the other aren't and you can see here the natural
> appears too close.

that’s true, neighbouring ledger lines should be shortened in some 
cases. LilyPond’s documentation advertises the ledger line shortening 
(http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/essay/engraving-details#ledger-lines), 
IMHO that’s a good reason why it should really work ;)

> I can fix this by moving the accidental with \once \override
> Accidental.X-offset = #-1.25, see:
>
> accidentals2.JPG
> <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/t5604/accidentals2.JPG>
>
> But this tweak has to be done every time... My question is: is it possible
> to add more padding between ledger lines and accidentals? I tried many
> combinations but nothing worked so far...

Of course you could use \override instead of \once \override but of 
course that’s not optimal, therefore I’m forwarding this to the bug 
list. The following code shows in which cases also a neighbouring ledger 
line should be shortened and where there are ledger lines that are 
shortened but shouldn’t be.

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\version "2.19.82"
<<
  \new Staff \relative c''' {
    \set Score.extraNatural = ##f
    ceses feses % feses: no need for shortening
    ceseh feseh % feseh: no need for shortening
    ces fes     % fes:   no need for shortening
    ceh feh     % ok
    c! f!       % both: more shortening needed
    cih fih     % ok
    cis fis     % ok
    cisih fisih % ok
    cisis fisis % ok
  }
  \new Staff \relative {
    aeses eeses % ok
    aeseh eeseh % ok
    as es       % ok
    aeh eeh     % both:  more shortening needed
    a! e!       % a:     more shortening needed
    aih eih     % aih:   more shortening needed
    ais eis     % ais:   more shortening needed
    aisih eisih % aisih: more shortening needed
    aisis eisis % ok
  }
>>
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