You didn't tell how you removed the clef and key signatures. If you use \override Staff.KeySignature #'transparent = ##t \override Staff.Clef #'transparent = ##t then they will still take the same space as if they were printed. However, based on your problem description, it seems that you have rather removed the engravers or set ... #'stencil = ##f, which completely removes the clef and time signatures.
In the latter case, a direct answer to your question is \override Score.LeftEdge #'space-alist #'first-note = #'(fixed-space . 10.0) /Mats Don Blaheta wrote:
This seems like the sort of thing there should be an easy tweak for, but I'm not finding the right properties to change, I guess. I'm setting a bunch of plainchant stuff in more or less modern notation, so it uses modern note heads and spacing rules and five lines, but still doesn't have a time signature or key signature and the clef is only printed on the first line. However, since the notes start in immediately on subsequent lines, the lyrics (which are centred on each note head) sometimes hang off the left end of the staff. When I have a stanza mark or something, then it *really* hangs off the end. So I'd like to allow a fixed-width space at the beginning of the line before the notes start rendering. I say "fixed-width" because I've tried a bunch of things involving adding an invisible note at the beginning of the line, but since there are a different number of notes on each line, this makes a variable-width space and the result looks very ragged. Ideally this fixed-width space would be configurable, but I'd settle for an "invisible clef sign" (i.e. a space the same width as the clef sign on the first line). But I couldn't figure out how to do that either. I'm using LP 2.10.0 at the moment, but I'm happy to upgrade again if the answer is to be found in a later version.
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