�On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:59:31PM +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > (flup to list) > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Dear Han Wen: >> >> I was asked to help a musicologist (PhD student) with some music typesetting >> aspects of her research, for which I am considering using lilypond. Because >> I am as of yet unfamiliar with your package, I'd like, if possible, to ask >> you whether what we want to do is possible in lilypond (before I invest the >> time to learn how to use the package). What we need to do is to have >> low-level control over the distance between notes, so that we could set it >> as a percentage of the distance between the previous notes. So, for example, >> if "o" denotes a note, then I'd like to be able to have: >> >> o o >> o o o >> o >> etc. (I hope you're viewing this in monospace :-) ). >> >> This specific example is meaningless, but you should get the idea of what we >> want. Is this doable in lilypond? Is this easy to do? > > The space between notes is proportional to the log of the time > difference of the notes, so you can fake this by selecting appropriate > durations for each note (and switching all kinds of spacing > tweaks). Direct control over spacing is not yet possible, though.
You could do this with MusiXTeX a lot simpler then with Lilypond, MusiXTeX does have a steep learning curve, but for really fine control of the final output it is second to none. -- | Joel Mayes | /~\ ASCII Ribbon campaign | Accordionist | \_/ stop HTML mail and news | Musician | / \ | Music Teacher | _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
