Hello On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 17:25 +1100, John Stinson wrote:
> > Is it possible (or might it be made possible) to vary the spacing > formula so that the the Gregorio score always fills the number of > staves allocated? > John Stinson OAM I understand John prefers to have the partition equally distributed on the several staves, but this has also a disadvantage: for achieving this goal, you will have to stretch partitions horizontally on each line, which is sometimes very ugly. You can also decide not to stretch horizontally, but then other people will ask to distribute the neumes better from left to right on each line, and this will result in a never ending story. Now, from the point of view of coding (developers: correct me if I say an insanity), computing the space formula depending on the number of staves allocated would imply a several passes process, with iterations, since the number of staves allocated is only known when the whole partition has been processed. In my opinion, this would imply a complete redesign of gregorio, which doesn't seem to be realistic. I would suggest to John to cut manually the partition (with the gabc 'z' or 'Z' instruction) when he needs this feature. I came to gregorio because I was disappointed by the way other softwares were introducing ugly spaces into the partitions and stretching these out not very esthetically. Best regards. ________________________________________________________________________ Father Pierre FRANÇOIS, Ph.D. (http://www.romanliturgy.org) Bosmanslei 16 B-2018 Antwerpen (Belgium) tel. +32 3 237 63 96 gsm +32 474 719 131
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