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Re: manually set visual size of a measure
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Urs Liska |
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Re: manually set visual size of a measure |
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Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:28:05 +0100 |
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Am 8. Dezember 2014 13:45:18 MEZ, schrieb Andrew Bernard <address@hidden>:
>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.
Hihi, that's what I say so often, thanks for the use case (quite obvious but
escaped me so far).
I'm just preparing an interview on Scores of Beauty where I intend to ask
composers how their different notation tools affect their creativity.
Urs
>
>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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