Quoth Mats Bengtsson: > Don Blaheta wrote: > > 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. [...] I'd like to allow > > a fixed-width space at the beginning of the line before the notes > > start rendering. > > 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 fact the issue is that I've removed the Bar engraver, since this is plainchant; without a bar engraver, the clef is never printed at the start of the line. Come to think of it, I'd actually be happy if I just got the clef signs back. > In the latter case, a direct answer to your question is > \override Score.LeftEdge #'space-alist #'first-note = #'(fixed-space . 10.0) This doesn't seem to do anything at all, whether at the start of the Score, start of the Staff, or anyplace else I can find where it's a syntactically valid statement. Quoth Kieren MacMillan: > Have you thought about adding this value to the 'X-extent of the > first note? e.g., > \once \override NoteColumn #'X-extent = #'(-20 . 1) Even this doesn't seem to work; when I put it before any other note on the line, I get the expected space, but when it is on the first note of the line, nothing happens. (Not quite true: if I put it on the first note of a line that has other stuff on it, e.g. a clef, then it works. So it looks like the X-extent of the leftmost note is allowed to hang off the edge of the staff somehow.) I confess I'm a little relieved; I was not looking forward to adding all these manually! -- -=-Don [EMAIL PROTECTED]<http://www.blahedo.org/>-=- Actually, it's the dice that play God with the universe. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
