Re: right bearing of meter signs

[Mats Bengtsson]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
>
> > A quite serious problem with LilyPond in situations where the
> > available horizontal space is quite small: The right bearing of meter
> > signs appears to be fixed and thus much too big (see attached image).
> > IMHO, it should become smaller in such situations.  Looking into the
> > feta-nummer fonts I see that the glyphs already have zero right
> > bearing.  So my question is how can I control this?  Ideally, LilyPond
> > should do this automatically...
>
>
> try the space-alist property of TimeSignature, and add
>
>     (next-note . (semi-fixed-space AMOUNT))
>
> Or somesuch; check the define-grobs.scm for examples. This is what
> BarLine has:
>
>                         (first-note . (fixed-space . 1.3))
>                         (next-note . (semi-fixed-space . 1.3))

I just tried several versions of this and didn't notice any difference
whatever parameters I set for the spacings:

\score {
  \notes \relative c' {
    \key g \major
    c d e f }
  \paper {  raggedright= ##t
    \translator{
      \VoiceContext
      TimeSignature \override #'space-alist = #'((first-note 
extra-space . 10.0)
                                                  (next-note 
semi-fixed-space . 10.0)
                                                  (right-edge 
extra-space . 0.5)
                                                  (staff-bar 
minimum-space . 2.0))
     }
  }
        
}

What did I mis?


   /Mats