Re: Proportional notation not working as expected.

2019-09-16 Thread Stefano Antonelli
On Sun, 2019-09-15 at 10:51 +1000, Andrew Bernard wrote: > engrave. I disagree with one of his major concepts, which is that > the  > bars should be 3.0 cm wide and represent one second of music. He's  > really insistent on this. Personally I don't believe this helps the  > musicians at all, and

Re: Proportional notation not working as expected.

2019-09-15 Thread Wols Lists
On 15/09/19 01:51, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > I work extensively with a New Complexity School composer whose work I > engrave. I disagree with one of his major concepts, which is that the > bars should be 3.0 cm wide and represent one second of music. He's > really insistent on this.

Re: Proportional notation not working as expected.

2019-09-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Andrew, > With his music changing time signature sometimes every bar, I am utterly > unable to achieve what he wants. The requirement is simple - fixed width bars > of a specified size. Does the fixed width include all prefatory material? e.g., if a measure included a TimeSignature and a

Re: Proportional notation not working as expected.

2019-09-14 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Stefano, I work extensively with a New Complexity School composer whose work I engrave. I disagree with one of his major concepts, which is that the bars should be 3.0 cm wide and represent one second of music. He's really insistent on this. Personally I don't believe this helps the

Re: Proportional notation not working as expected.

2019-09-14 Thread Stefano Antonelli
I didn't fail to notice the crickets chirping, but I'm hoping someone can steer me in the right direction. What I want is to define the way a given measure of music looks throughout the piece.  In other words, I would like the width of the bar should be identical regardless of whatever else is

Proportional notation not working as expected.

2019-08-30 Thread Stefano Antonelli
Dear list, I'm trying to control measure width using proportional spacing.  And it's not working as expected. I created a kind of "into/out of" proportional notation wrapper: ePUT  = #(define-music-function  (parser location num music)  (number? ly:music?) #{ \set