Re: How to pack notes very tightly?

[Urs Liska]

Forwarding to bug-lilypond.
Could someone please verify this and create a tracker entry?

(It's not my code BTW)

Am 20. Januar 2015 08:20:25 MEZ, schrieb Steve Lacy <address@hidden>:
>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 <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Am 20. Januar 2015 07:47:20 MEZ, schrieb Steve Lacy
><address@hidden>:
>> >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
>> >
>> >
>>
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