[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> That reminds me to tell from two experiences I made with MusiXTeX
> and PMX.
>
> MusiXTeX provides two spacing methods \arithmeticskipscale and
> \geometricskipscale. I think the names tell all. One of the methods
way way back , we used to have a geometric scale (distances increase
multiplicatively, a halfnote gets 1.5 times the distance of a quarter
note), and it looked awful: the short notes don't get enough space,
the long ones too much. We changed to arithmetic spacing in 0.1.9
> Don Simons, the author of PMX added another aspect: if the notes
> do not fit well into a line - i.e. if a mimimum distance for
> short notes cannot be kept - then the distance for longer notes
> is decreased until the notes fit or until all notes are spaced
> with this minimum distance. This feature helps much in slow movements
Interesting feature. It would be difficult to implement within the
context of LilyPond right now, though.
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