I'm no expert, but you should start with the docs on proportional notation:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Proportional-notation#Proportional-notation Read the entire Horizontal Spacing chapter. Better yet, read all the docs! neil On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[email protected]>wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: João Pais <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:35 PM > Subject: Lylipond and space-time notation > To: [email protected] > > > Hello, > > I wanted to ask about Lylipond's ability to work with space-time > notation. That is, with notation that is distributed in the layout > according to a fixed horizontal grid representing time. > For example, here are some pages of Benedict Mason's Ensemble piece, for 3 > metrically independent ensembles. The grid above in the page has a fixed > format throughout the score, so that each page has 10'' of music in it, > independently of it's coordination with the current metrical strucutre > (which is different in each of the 3 ensembles, and sometimes also divided > among each ensemble - pages 4 to 7). > > [Note: the score I present is just an example. I am enquiring only about > the horizontal notation principle, and not of the possibility of joining > several music types with different metrics. Although information about > that would also be interesting to consider.] > > This file was made in Sibelius, where all several laborious techniques of > "faking" and layouting were necessary to produce this score. In the end > result, it makes sense to say that the layout was 'imposed' on the score, > and not the other way. > What I concretely wanted to know is: is it possible (or in the future, > planned to) to make the 'real time duration' of the music to decide on the > horizontal layout of the score? For example, in traditional notation the > same piece is notated with the same layout if the tempo is 4th = 120 or > 4th = 40. Would it be possible to make the score layout itself differently > just by changing the tempo - and with it the duration? > > In case the answer is positive, did you also consider cases when the page > divisions don't match with the metrical division? What happens to bar > lines in the end of a system, how are empty spaces in the beginning of the > next filled up? And how is that reflected (or not) in the part extraction? > > Best regards, > > João Pais > > > > -- > Friedenstr. 58 > 10249 Berlin (Deutschland) > Tel +49 30 42020091 | Mob +49 162 6843570 > [email protected] | skype: jmmmpjmmmp > > > -- > Han-Wen Nienhuys - [email protected] - > http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen<http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehanwen> > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- Neil Thornock, D.M. Assistant Professor of Music Composition/Theory Brigham Young University http://neilthornock.net
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