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Re: manually set visual size of a measure
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Andrew Bernard |
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Re: manually set visual size of a measure |
Date: |
Mon, 8 Dec 2014 23:45:18 +1100 |
This relates closely to the question I am perennially asking concerning
proportional notation.
Is there any conceivable way in lilypond to specify a fixed and absolute length
for a measure, such as 3cm?
Lilypond proportional notation seems to break down in this area when you are
continually changing time signatures. Or at least, I cannot get any version to
produce uniform length bars. I’d be happy just with uniform length bars even if
we can’t get an absolute size in millimetres for example.
Does this require hacking the deep internals of the layout engines, or is it
simply impossible?
The scores I need to set are by a colleague who is a contemporary composer who
uses a strict 3cm = 1 second metric, and I am unable to engrave the works (with
any known tool). It seems frustrating to be defeated by a composer with a
pencil and a ruler.
Andrew
> On 8 Dec 2014, at 20:53, Gerjan Piksen <address@hidden> wrote:
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> While I wan’t my time signature to stay the same I would like to manually set
> the length of a measure.