Re: Incipits

[Till Rettig]

Mats Bengtsson schrieb:
> Robert Memering wrote:
> > I think the most important drawback in the instrument name
> > approach is that the horizontal spacing is very awkward,
> > e.g. long rests (several longae) or ligatures plus single
> > notes have unwanted space in between. If only one could
> > "turn off" spacing, the instrument name incipits would look
> > perfect.
> >   
> If you read the section about "Horizontal spacing" in the manual, you can
> find some parameters to tweak, to get what you want. Another solution is
> to scale the durations: c\longa*1/8
Indeed this is the drawback for ancient music at the moment, and there 
are a couple of
ways how to tweak the spacing manually. Another way is to set the width 
of the incipit
manually so the spaces get "squashed" smaller. You will have the same 
problem, though, with
the other approach as well.

till
>   /Mats
>
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