Am Montag, 11. Februar 2008 16:36 schrieb Juergen Reuter:
IIRC, the spacing engine maintains a variable that keeps track of shortest
available duration in a peace in computes the ideal distance of larger
note values in a logarithmic scale based on the shortest duration. Maybe
this computation needs to be changed for the incipit (and only there!) to
get tighter spacing in the incipit.
IMO, horizontal spacing in incipits should be completely
"turned off", i.e. uniform (and rather tight) spacing
regardless of note values, as seen in the renaissance
manuscripts.
I would agree with that. I had an idea about a scheme function working
in the background that would scale all notes to a single duration (like
1/8 or even 1/16 as Karl has done in some of his scores. It seems now
to be the most easiest way to overcome the spacing engine while keeping
still all of its advantages if some objects (like text e.g.) are wider
than the note itself.