> On 30 Oct 2019, at 00:05, Graham King <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 29 Oct 2019, at 22:12, Thomas Morley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Am Di., 29. Okt. 2019 um 16:28 Uhr schrieb Graham King >> <[email protected]>: >>> >>> <snip> >>> This unanswered part of Reggie's question in [1] lead me to re-scratch an >>> old itch. In manuscripts and old printed editions of mensural notation, >>> notes and rests are horizontally densely-spaced without regard for their >>> musical duration. I have struggled to reproduce this in lilypond, and the >>> nearest I can get is this: >>> <snip> >>> >>> It would be good to be able to impose a small amount of horizontal space >>> between the noteheads, but I'm at a loss to see how that can be done. Any >>> ideas? >>> >>> -- Graham >>> >>> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2019-10/msg00420.html >> >> Probably below may be of some help? >> >> \paper { ragged-right = ##t } >> >> \new Score \with { >> \omit TimeSignature >> \override SpacingSpanner.spacing-increment = 1 >> \override SpacingSpanner.base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment -3) >> \override SpacingSpanner.common-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment -3) >> \override NoteHead.style = #'petrucci >> >> %% play around with below, probably useful are settings between 2 and ~10 >> \override SpacingSpanner.shortest-duration-space = #2 >> } >> >> { >> \cadenzaOn >> c'\longa \breve 1 \breve 1 2 2 1 4 4 1 2 >> %\bar "" \break % uncomment to observe effect >> 2 8 8 8 8 c''1 b' a' g' >> } > > That's lovely. \override SpacingSpanner.shortest-duration-space = #3.5 > results in something that could almost be from Cantiones Sacrae or any of the > movable-type printed editions of the period. > > It will take me a little while to understand fully what you've done, but > thanks! > > -- Graham
Harm, I'm afraid I'm struggling with "#(ly:make-moment -3)" The NR[2] shows four arguments to ly:make-moment, describes two of them, and then speaks a little obtusely of the _second_ argument to ly:make-moment being possibly negative, and I can't find any examples of a negative first (and only) argument online. Most examples seem to use one argument, a positive rational, which I think I do understand. Where does this syntax come from and what does it mean? And why did you choose -3 ? TIA -- Graham [2] http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/scheme-functions#index-ly_003amake_002dmoment
