Re: proportional notation screws up score

[Trevor Bača]

On 12/3/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> Trevor Bača escreveu:
> > 2. There is a bug with proportional not dealing with skips correctly.
> > Proportional notation handles notes and rests correctly. But
> > proportional notation freaks out with skips. I noticed this some time
> > ago but haven't really drawn any special attention to the bug because
> > a reasonable workaround is to use a transparent rest (or transparent
> > note) in place of a skip. But this is a problem and does need to be
> > fixed because using this workaround can (and does) lead to all sorts
> > of interpreter warnings about clashing note columns or unknown rest
> > direction. Here's a snippet and I'll crosspost the bug list; to see
> > what's going on, render the example and note that the spacing of all
> > three scores should be identical but that the 2nd score is not:
>
>
>   \override SpacingSpanner #'uniform-stretching = ##t
>
> seems to work over here.

OK, yes, it works here to. Can't believe I hadn't figured that out
before ... very useful indeed.

So the observation is something like: "uniform-stretching spaces skips
proportionally".

(My previous mental gloss on uniform-stretching was something like:
"uniform-stretching spaces simultaneous tuplets evenly". Very useful
attribute for rhythmically involved stuff.)


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Trevor Bača
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