Hmmm.... I'm having misgivings about the idea of fixed space between symbols.
Looking at several Breitkopf & Härtel parts, I see rests spaced to fill available space. Though, because spacing is compact, we never see the awful behavior Jan-Peter's example reveals. http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.2,_Op.73_(Brahms,_Johannes)#Parts http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.1,_Op.21_(Beethoven,_Ludwig_van)#Parts Instead of having fixed spacing between symbols, would it be better to have a limit on how much a rest can be stretched? This would be expressed in staff-spaces (like the current minimum which is hard-coded as 1 staff-space). ------------------------------------------------ Another observation from the parts cited above: LilyPond creates an 8-bar church rest (rests.M3) which is a composite of 2 four-bar symbols (rests.M2): see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/the-feta-font#rest-glyphs The cited parts do use a composite glyph, rather two normally spaces 4-bar symbols.: In the following, we get an 8-bar symbol followed by a whole rest. Should there be at least an option to have this expressed as three equally-spaced symbols: 4 + 4 + 1? \version "2.19.53" { \compressFullBarRests R1*9 } _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
