Re: DynamicText.extra-spacing-width in StaffGroups and similar

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 19/06/2022 à 18:45, Simon Albrecht a écrit :
> Hi Jean,
>
> On 19/06/2022 00:08, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> > The point of this override is to avoid placing dynamics over span 
> > bars. With the general default of '(+inf.0 . -inf.0), they are mostly 
> > ignored in the horizontal spacing problem, which causes problems with 
> > things like
> …
> > So this override shouldn't be specific to Dynamics in StaffGroup.
> >
> > For discussion of the problems this override causes, see
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6350
>
>
> Thanks, that gives me a much clearer perspective. I commented on the 
> issue.
>
> For my own use now, it’s easy to override extra-spacing-width to 
> infinitesimal for all Voice contexts.



You're welcome. Just curious: what do you mean by 'infinitesimal'?
'(+inf.0 . -inf.0)? That simply means to make the height entirely
empty.