Hi Wol, > I have in general with lilypond - it tries to avoid collsions by separating > stuff vertically. How do I tell it to push them apart *horizontally*
I have often asked about devising (and paying for) an automated system for this. Unfortunately, nobody has taken me up on my offer yet. > I have seven bars rest in a part. I want some markup starting at the first > barline, and different markup ending at the last barline. If a part has > notes, those markups will separate horizontally naturally - how can I force > that to happen when there's that rest? \override Score.RehearsalMark.extra-spacing-width = #’(-0.5 . 0.5) should help. Adjust the values to suit your needs. > And secondly, I want a coda sign at the end of an alternative. Of course, it > collides with the repeat spanner Did you try \once \override Score.Script.X-offset = #5 or similar? > The problem with the docu or lsr snippet I found (can't remember which) was > (a) it supposedly shortened all spanners - which I don't want Did you use \once? > colliding notation is VERY common, and lily really doesn't handle it very > well at all I disagree with that strong language. I think Lilypond does very well with almost all collisions — so well, that we take it for granted. However, I agree that certain collisions are not handled gracefully, nor are there adequate (and adequately simple) mechanisms for tweaking. That’s where development efforts need to be focused. > as soon as lily starts staircasing markup it wastes a heck of a lot My first tweak, applied in a \context block, should stop that from happening. Hope this helps! Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
