Re: Ignoring note value when spacing notes and rests

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benkő Pál" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Devel" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: Ignoring note value when spacing notes and rests


> 2013/6/15 Phil Holmes <address@hidden>:
> > I'm setting a piece of late 16th century music (it's in Musica 
> > Transalpina),
> > and at this time notes and rests tended to occupy a space determined by
> > their fitment on the page, rather than their note value.  I've read the
> > section of the NR on proportional spacing, which does exactly the 
> > opposite
> > of what I want.  Is there a way to force essentially uniform spacing,
> > regardless of note value?
>
> I'd love such a command too; in the meantime I play with settings like
>
> \context
> {
> \Score
> % \override SpacingSpanner #'packed-spacing = ##t
> \override SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 16 1)
> \override SpacingSpanner #'shortest-duration-space = #0
> \override SpacingSpanner #'spacing-increment = #0
> }
>
> p


I've discovered that if I just use

\override SpacingSpanner #'spacing-increment = #0

but also set the music with \cadenzaOn, this gives me perfectly acceptable 
spacing, including the rests.  You just need to put \bar "" wherever the 
barlines would have been.  See attached work in progress, but with spacing 
I'm happy with.

--
Phil Holmes

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