Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 2462 in lilypond: unnecessarily wide spacing caused by Lyrics

[lilypond]

Comment #9 on issue 2462 by address@hidden: unnecessarily wide spacing  
caused by Lyrics
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2462

The guilty code seems to be spring.cc:103 inside merge()
  avg_distance = max (min_distance + 0.3, avg_distance);
avg_distance is then used as the ideal spacing between columns.

An interesting experiment to see how the regtests look after removing that  
line.

The discussion of the patch to issue 1779 shows a previous attempt to move  
the 0.3 somewhere more appropriate; it should probably be a property of  
spaccing-spanner.