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Polymetric tuplets look bad


From: Han-Wen Nienhuys
Subject: Polymetric tuplets look bad
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:34:00 +0100

address@hidden writes:
> <<
> \new Staff { \times 4/7 { a'4 a' a' a' a' a' a' } }
> \new Staff { \times 4/5 { a' a' a' a' a' } }
> \new Staff { \times 4/9 { a' a' a' a' a' a' a' a' a' } }
> >>
> 
> Why so much space for the first quarter note?  The 9:4 tuplets are the 
> shortest duration notes, so I would expect them to drive most of the 
> spacing, but they look very irregular.

This is a dilemma; in single staff music, the (stretchable) space
should be from right-edge of a symbol to the left-edge of the
following. Unfortunately, this approach does not work well for
polyphonic pieces, where the left-edges of the notes should follow a
regular pattern. Currently, LilyPond uses a compromise between
different staves; probably, we should switch off all delicate optical
spacing for polyphonic parts, and use the left-edge of symbols exclusively.


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 Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden   |   http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen 





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