On Thu 08 Jul 2021 at 10:50:00 (-0700), Sam Roberts wrote: > 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.
I'm not really the person to comment on this, but there is a thread you might read, starting at my aside in: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2019-10/msg00016.html which discusses why this might be quite difficult. Cheers, David.
