On Thu, 2025-12-04 at 12:56 +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Sorry for the late reply. > > > [...] I have occasionally noticed the ambiguity created between a > > > key signature involving a single accidental on the same line as the > > > following note and the accidental not belonging to the key > > signature > > > but applying to the note, I don't recall noticing how treacherous > > it > > > is when it is a key change to a single accidental without any key > > > cancellations. I wonder if Gould has anything to say about this, > > > There is nothing about this topic in her book – at least nothing I > could find after thouroughly checking it. > > > leaving a large space in this case does ameliorate it, putting the > > > key change before the barline would be much clearer. > > > Well, but this is not how it is done. > > Attached are some examples that demonstrate quite wide spacing after > the key signature. Four different composers, four different > publishers. > > * Jehan Alain, Œuvre d'orgue Tome I, p. 9 (Leduc) > * Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne op.48, p. 63 (Schirmer) > * Claude Debussy, Préludes Vol. 1, Nr. 4, p. 14 (Durand) > * Edvard Grieg, Lyric pieces, Nr. 51, p. 156 (Peters) > > Note that not all pieces in my selection have the same wide spacing > after key signatures; I just want to show that such a wide spacing is > not uncommon, especially if there is plenty of horizontal space > available. > > My conclusion is that you have to adjust the spacing value to your > taste, more or less. I agree that LilyPond's default value is on the > large side, and maybe it makes sense to slightly reduce it.
Thank you for studying this so thoroughly, I have put a user specified spacing into the LilyPond syntax generated by Denemo now. Richard
