Thanks Jean. This does of course work, but leaves the bar numbers a lot higher than previously. Using a value of 1 is almost the same as before, even 2 is a lot higher.
However overnight I had a thought -- moving Bar_number_engraver from the Score context into the ChoirStaff context restores the original behaviour quite well. Kevin. On Tue, 9 May 2023, at 17:30, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le mardi 09 mai 2023 à 17:21 +1000, Kevin Pye a écrit : > >> However, when this is done the bar numbers are lowered, and conflict with >> the ChoirStaff bracket: (Normally the bar numbers would be higher so as not >> to collide with the bracket.) Presumably this is because the >> Bar_number_engraver also uses the results of the Staff_collecting_engraver. >> > Yes, known issue. Try > > ` \override BarNumber.outside-staff-horizontal-padding = 1000 ` > in the `\layout { \context { \Score ... } }` block. > > > *Attachments:* > • signature.asc