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Re: proportional notation screws up score
From: |
Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
Re: proportional notation screws up score |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:05:52 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) |
Trevor Bača escreveu:
> 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".
no, the observation is:
By default, lily will stretch the spacing *following* a symbol, and
add various tweaks depending stem directions etc.
uniform-stretching switches off all those complications.
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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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