Re: Grace notes with fixed spacing

[James Bailey]

On Dec 29, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Sven Axelsson wrote:

> OK, rtfm:ing and testing a bit further.
> 
> I created a music function like this:
> 
> pgrace = #(define-music-function (parser location notes) (ly:music?)
>  #{ \newSpacingSection
>     \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'spacing-increment = #0.9
>     % override Score.SpacingSpanner #'strict-grace-spacing = ##t
>     \grace $notes
>  #}
> )
> 
> in order to play around with different space settings.
> 
> I then have definintions like for instance
> 
> cad = { \pgrace { \small g32[ e8 d32] } }
> 
> that previously used plain grace instead of pgrace.
> 
> In the function above I've commented out strict-grace-spacing. That
> setting does more or less what I want, but causes other spacing
> problems as noted in the documentation. spacing-increment doesn't help
> me much.
> 
> Does anyone here have a clue of what magic settings I could plug into
> the music function to get the desired non-stretchable spacing? Or
> maybe it isn't even possible?

Maybe the bagpipe settings will help you. 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Bagpipes#Bagpipes