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Re: Polymetric tuplets look bad


From: Erik Sandberg
Subject: Re: Polymetric tuplets look bad
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:55:11 +0100
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On Wednesday 22 December 2004 19.52, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Wiz Aus writes:
> > Why so much space for the first quarter note?  The 9:4 tuplets are the
> > shortest duration notes, so I would expect them to drive most of the
> > spacing, but they look very irregular.
>
> Because the music is streched.

I agree with Wiz: Why doesn't the non-raggedright version just look like a 
stretched out version of the raggedright version, i.e. with more even 
spacing? I suspect that this is how a hand-engraved score would look like.

> \layout{ raggedright = ##t }
> <<
> \new Staff { \times 4/7 { a'4 a' a' a' a' a' a' } }
> \new Staff { \times 4/5 { a' a' a' a' a' } }
> \new Staff { \times 4/9 { a' a' a' a' a' a' a' a' a' } }
>
>
>
> Jan.




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