Sorry for the delayed response. unsetting the ragged and adding the terminating thingy (sorry, don't know its name), looks better, thanks! But it still doesn't get me what I'd call "proportional".
I'd like the horizontal space taken by these 3 bars to be ***exactly*** the same, since they each take exactly 3 ticks on the metronome to play: \time 3/4 a4 a a | a2 a4 | a2. | But the way they are rendered, the whitespace gets tweeked so the more notes that are drawn in the bar, the wider it gets, and all three end up being different lengths. I've searched the docs, and I'm trying to use \set proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1/4) but I'm finding the documentation difficult to understand, and the variants I've tried don't seem to do anything to the layout. On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 1:26 AM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Sam Roberts" <[email protected]> > > To: "Lillypond Users Mailing List" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, July 5, 2021 12:41:14 AM > > Subject: struggling to get horizontal space on the page exactly > > proportional to time > > > Hello lilyponders. I'm new to music, and very new to lilypond, but I > > thought I'd take a shot at using lilypond to typeset Greensleeves, > > since the printed version I am learning from is just a stream of > > notes, its printed representation obscures the repetitive elements. > > > > Attached is what I have. Notice how the bars don't line up? I know > > that's traditional in sheet music (maybe because space was a premium > > on vellum?), but I'd like to see them line up so I can scan quickly > > and see how the patterns more easily. > > > > Thanks! > > Sam > > Sam, > > See attached. I commented out the ragged-right bits. I think this may be > what you're after. For the pick-up note at the beginning you would need to > adjust the indent of the first system by quite a bit if you wanted it lined > up with the last beat of the first full system. > > -David
