Thanks, Urs. Reading your code, seems like it was just a convenience function for setting SpacingSpanner.common-shortest-duration
Adding a simple: \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'common-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4) Got me to the density I was looking for. (http://lilybin.com/qukbs5/3) It's interesting (frustrating?) that the documentation on changing horizontal spacing mentions setting base-shortest-duration to adjust horizontal spacing ( http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/changing-horizontal-spacing), but in fact, it seems as though common-shortest-duration is the variable that really needs to be tweaked. Steve On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org> wrote: > > > Am 20. Januar 2015 07:47:20 MEZ, schrieb Steve Lacy <sl...@slacy.com>: > >I'm transcribing a Mendelssohn score, and am trying to get Lilypond to > >pack > >notes about as densely as they are in the original score. For example, > >trying to fit a snippet like this onto a single line: > > > >\version "2.16.2" > >\language "english" > >\relative c''' { > > \key e \minor > > \mark \default > > \time 2/2 > > b2->\f\>(\times 2/3 { b8\!)[fs8-1(g8] a8[g8-3 fs8] } | > >\times 2/3 { g8->)[ds-1(e8] fs8[e8 ds8] e8)[as,-1(b-2] c-3[b-2 as-1] | > > b8-1->)[fs(g] a[g fs] } g->) e\<(g) b_- | > > e8---4 e---0 g-- b-- e4.---0\sf(e8-.) | > > e2(\sf\> \times 2/3 { e8\!)[b8-2(c8] d8[c8 b8] } | > >} > > > >(http://lilybin.com/qukbs5/2) > > > >I've tried adding: > > > >\override SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 > >1) > > > >But this seems to have no or only very little effect on the default > >spacing, even with make-moment up to 2/1 or higher. For reference I'd > >like > >the formatting to match something like this: > > > >[image: Inline image 1] > > > >I can get the desired result by adding a "\noBreak" at the end of every > >bar > >but that's very laborious and makes the .ly file quite a bit uglier. > >(even using an alias like nb = { \noBreak }) > > > >Are there other tricks for very densely formatted scores? > > > >Steve > > Have a look at > https://github.com/openlilylib/openlilylib/tree/master/notation-snippets/adjust-horizontal-spacing > and see if it helps. > > Urs > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >lilypond-user mailing list > >lilypond-user@gnu.org > >https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >
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