Hi, it seems proportional notation and the spacing is more broken than I ever expected. I'm extremely frustrated (especially after I put so much hope into lilypond) having spent 5 days to enter 12 lines of music and now having lost 4 hours of work trying to space 4 lines of music correctly (with the musicians waiting...).
I urge the maintainers of the documentation to put a warning in big bold letters to the section of proportional notation (8.4.3) that users encountered severe bugs in the spacing algorithm or maybe skipping the section stating that lilypond is capable of proportional notation altogether. For anybody able to help I uploaded the score in question here: icem-www.folkwang-hochschule.de/~finnendahl/download/violine-test.tgz To generate the score, "gesamt.ly" has to be evaluated by lilypond. To see what is wrong, you can simply change the expression "#(ly:make-moment 8 99)" at the end of line 10 into #(ly:make-moment 8 100) and reevaluate. In my version (2.11.0-1) the first staff system stretches out all the way to the right paper edge while being far too short with the "99" setting. To get a feeling why this is so strange, compare the output of a 98 to the output of a 99). But you can also leave that line alone and change the next ly:make-moment into different values to observe completely unpredictable results (it would even be funny if I hadn't run into a severe time problem). I'm completely at loss here and will probably have to resort to non-proportional notation (which is less than suboptimal in the special case of that piece) or go back to handwriting (after throwing my computer out of the window). -- Orm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
