Re: Horizontal note spacing

[David Kastrup]

LaurenH <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm looking for a music writing program that will allow me to precisely
> control horizontal spacing for use in a psychology sight-reading
> study.

You are probably best off writing your own program then.  LilyPond does
so many tweaks and finetunes and optical spacing and what else that it
will take a lot of work to wrest control of horizontal spacing in its
entirety from it.

Now you can, like, use LilyPond's markup constructs in order to puzzle
things together starting at music glyphs.  Whether that is a more
convenient path for you than just using any old program (or possibly Urs
Liska's project of making LilyPond glyphs accessible to LaTeX) is a
different question.

It might also be worth looking at MusiXTeX, actually: one of its main
nuisances is that you are yourself responsible for every tiny bit of
spacing and collision avoidance and whatever.  For your task, that might
be rather an advantage.

-- 
David Kastrup