On 7/25/07, peterwinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have read the horizontal spacing section in the manual and have tried to replicated the code in my own ly file but \override SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4) doesn't seem to work. Here is what I want to do. The music is composed mostly of 1/8 notes. So if I make the base-shortest-duration to be 1/4 note then the spacing between the notes would be shorter. Right? However, no matter what I make base-shortest-duration to be, nothing changes. HELP! Here is the code http://www.nabble.com/file/p11803568/matins1_a.ly matins1_a.ly
Hi, Does it work to simply make the line width shorter? Ie, you can add line-width = 5\in in the paper block to see what this looks like. In general, Lily likes to fill lines completely from left to right, like fully justifying paragraphs of text, and I think that's why your short, one-line example is stretched. If you add in several more lines of music, Lily will optimize line spacing better. If, however, your scores all are short like this, then consider setting ragged-last = ##f in the layout block, which will tell Lily *not* to justify the last (or in your case, the only) line. And while you're playing with spacing, it's sometimes helpful to set ragged-right = ##t also in the layout block, which will tell Lily *not* to justify all lines in the score. In a one-line score, ragged-right = ##t should carry the same effect as ragged-last = ##f. Trevor. -- Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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