Re: Actually forcing some horizontal space between two notes

[David Sumbler]

On Wed, 2017-01-04 at 08:20 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > It would be very useful sometimes to be able to tell Lilypond
> > > something
> > > like: "Regardless of any other considerations, make sure that the
> > > second note is at least 3 staff-spaces to the right of the first
> > > note."
> > > 
> > > Can this be done?
> > Quite frankly: no, currently not, or I’d be very surprised about
> > depths so hidden that nobody yet came up and told us about them.
> Is this not what you’re talking about?
> 
> \version "2.19.25"
> 
> test = {
>  c''4 4 4 4
>  \override NoteHead.extra-spacing-width = #'(0 . 10)
>  c''4 4 4 4
> }
> 
> \score { \test }
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Kieren.

It seems to be what I was talking about - thanks for pointing it out.

Is this a relatively new feature?

David