Hi Andrew, thank you for your answer. I’ll tell you a secret: almost the entire occidental notation system is a nice and juicy cartesian linear graph.
Anyway, as you said, no notation program can do this task. As far as I know maybe just bach library inside max. The idea maybe could be transposed in another way: is it possible for each measure (e.g. quaver = 60) to write a lilypond score that take just some note and an x value for space free from tempo link? > On 4 Feb 2023, at 10:32, Andrew Bernard <[email protected]> wrote: > > My composer colleague always wants to write 3cm = 1 second for his scores. I > insist that music is not linear graph paper and never was. So we disagree. I > just do not believe musicians read music that way. Yet this is what some > people want. Consequently I have looked into this and I do not know of any > notation program that can do it. if you think about it, forcing a specific > length for bars etc means the sophisticated layout engines cannot do their > job. > > If I am out of date and this _can+ be done, then I really want to know about > it. > > Andrew > > > > On 4/02/2023 8:26 pm, Jacopo Greco d'Alceo wrote: >> >> I’ve always wondered if it’s possible to write a lilypond score in absolute >> time, just giving almost 2 parameters: note and absolute time in seconds, >> without the measure boundaries. >>
