Re: packed option

[Juergen Reuter]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Laura Conrad wrote:

> > > > > > "JR" == Juergen Reuter <address@hidden> writes:
>
>    JR> may I suggest to add a 'packed' option to lilypond-book?  This could
>    JR> help enhancing some of the ancient notation examples in the
>    JR> documentation.
>
> Is this intended to fix some of the problems with parts that use
> larger note values as the fundamental "beat"?

No.  Which problems in particular are you thinking of?

> Or is it to fix the
> problem of Petrucci transcriptions looking wierd because modern
> spacing algorithms leave more space between larger note values and
> Petrucci didn't?

Right.  But please note, that the only new thing is that I just added 
the "packed" option to lilypond-book.  The "packed" variable has been part 
of lily almost as long as the "raggedright" variable and is used 
analogously (actually, raggedright=##t originally also packed notes in 
early lily 1.x, but very soon was factored out into a separate variable).

>  Or some other problem?
>
> If it's either of the above, I'm in favor.  I've been doing some
> transcriptions from Odhecaton A, and normally I think Lily's output
> looks much better than whatever I transcribed from, but Petrucci
> really does beat Lily 2.0 at his own game.  See
> <http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/288.html> for an
> example.

Indeed, you may want trying to set the packed variable to ##t, but I fear 
that you then get something that is too heavily packed.

Greetings,
J�rgen