On 2011-01-29 23:35, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 29 Jan 2011 at 21:56, Jari Williamsson wrote:
I'm planning to create a plug-in to space full measure rests
proportionally. The things that the plug-in should handle:
* A full measure rests with "long" time signature should require more
space than a full measure rest with a short time signature
It seems to me, this only matters when you have mixed time
signatures. When there's a single long time signature, I want the
empty measures taking up as little space as possible, as long as it's
still legible.
Yes, this is for parts that mix time signatures a lot. Currently, a part
that has full rests on one staff with 2/4, 7/4, 2/4, 7/4 becomes almost
unreadable when all measures are of the same width.
* A long multimeasure rests should require more space than a short
multimeasure rest
I find spacing of multimeasure rests problematic -- they don't
respond to layout updates the way other measures do, and I find I
often have to set them manually. They are almost always too wide in
Finale's default spacing, but I don't know what rule I'd propose.
I think the default behaviour in Finale has always(?) been to set it to
360 EVPUs, regardless of how many measure rests.
One thing I would say is that there should be a ceiling on how wide
the multi-measure rest ever gets, rather than width proportional to
the number of measures. While a 6-measure rest should be wider than a
2-measure rest, I don't think a 24-measure rest should be wider than
a 12-measure rest, certainly not twice as wide.
I agree about a ceiling.
Best regards,
Jari Williamsson
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