Dear all,
I'm finally starting to experiment a little bit more with gregorio and
questions arise...
I've learned by looking in old messages on the list that spacing is controlled
in gregorio in two ways:
1) the \setgrefactor{} macro;
2) the settings in the file gsp-default.tex.
I'm practicing by re-writing a small booklet of hymns and antifonas for the
Tempus per Annum. The reference is obviously the Solesmes antifonale.
The first thing that comes to the eye when writing some scores is that Solesmes
uses a much tighter spacing and that the result with gregorio requires more
lines. Indeed, as explained in the documentation, the default (17) setting of
\setgrefactor leads to staffs identical to the Solesme's ones. But the
inter-note spacing and the inter word spacing is bigger. By choosing a smaller
point size in the latex document things improve as the text is smaller, but
this doesn't work as a final solution because also the inter-note spacing plays
a role. By playing with numbers in gsp-default one actually shrink and pull the
score but my personal feeling is that the default values of all those
parameters there may have a special meaning that developers know but is hidden
to my newbie eye.
In particular I ask: is there a link between gsp-default and \setgrefactor? Or,
in other words: if I modify gsp-default will the score show unpredictable (or
simply bad) behaviour if I later change \setgrefactor?
And what is the connection between gsp-default and point size of the document?
If I modify gsp-default for a 12 pt document, will it be ok also for 10 pt
documents or any modification should be considered "attached to the project"
that one carries on?
Thank you if you can clarify a bit on that, telling which is the best strategy
for shrinking things without breaking the (maybe delicate) tuning of gregorio.
Lorenzo
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