Re: Reducing horizontal spacing

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/12/7 David Bolton <address@hidden>:
> My goal is to reduce the horizontal spacing so that I fit four measures
> per system instead of two.
>
> Unfortunately I can't work out where the override statement is supposed
> to go. I've tried mimicking the locations shown in the documentation but
> they all give errors for my score.
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/changing-spacing
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/the-override-command
>
> See attached for my score.

It didn't work because you haven't specified appropriate context -
SpacingSpanner lives in the Score context.

And by the way, why are you using documentation for versions 2.16 and
2.17 while the file is marked as 2.14?  This looks like a bad idea.

best,
Janek