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Re: manually set visual size of a measure
From: |
Gerjan Piksen |
Subject: |
Re: manually set visual size of a measure |
Date: |
Mon, 8 Dec 2014 13:50:44 +0100 |
This is exactly my problem!
> On 08 Dec 2014, at 13:45, Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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:
>>
>>
>> While I wan’t my time signature to stay the same I would like to manually
>> set the length of a measure.
>
>
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