Re: Chord names collide with span bar

[Aaron Hill]

On 2024-03-19 2:29 pm, Knute Snortum wrote:
> I ran into something today -- it's not quite a bug; more of an "ugly."  
> In
> some situations, chord names collide with the span bar of a Grand or 
> Piano
> Staff.  Here is an example:
>
> \version "2.25.13"
>
> \score {
>   \new GrandStaff <<
>     \new Staff \relative { c''4 c c c | c c c c }
>     \new ChordNames \chordmode { c2. q8. des16:maj9 | q1 }
>     \new Staff { \improvisationOn b'4 4 4 8. 16~ | 4 4 4 4 }
>   >>
> }


Curious.  The skylines look interesting, almost like the SpanBar is not 
being factored in, only the parts of the BarLine.

Below, I attempted to add some virtual height to the ChordName, and it 
seemed to allow the ChordName to push the BarLine (and SpanBar) to the 
right:

%%%%
\version "2.22.0"

#(ly:set-option 'debug-skylines #t)
\layout {
  \context { \Score
    \override NonMusicalPaperColumn.stencil =
      #ly:separation-item::print
  }
  \context { \ChordNames
    \override ChordName.extra-spacing-height =
      #'(0 . 2)
  }
}

\score {
  \new GrandStaff <<
    \new Staff \relative { c''4 c c c | c c c c }
    \new ChordNames \chordmode { c2. q8. des16:maj9 | q1 }
    \new Staff { \improvisationOn b'4 4 4 8. 16~ | 4 4 4 4 }
  >>
}
%%%%

Still sounds like a defect of some sort, as the default behavior should 
probably be handling things.  But perhaps this trick above might be 
useful in whatever score you are working on as a stopgap.


-- Aaron Hill