Re: strange automatic line breaking after full measure rests andbefore small durations

[pls]

On 11.10.2013, at 18:10, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> "pls" wrote Friday, October 11, 2013 4:26 PM
> 
> Hm, but why are there line breaks after every R1? e.g.:
> 
> R1*12
> r2 r4 r8 r16 r32 r64 r128 r128
> 
> It's due to the artificial nature of this example.  LP tries to estimate a 
> suitable spacing for the section of music presented, based on the shortest 
> duration found.  The 128th notes lead her to believe long measures will be 
> needed to accommodate all these short notes.  Try removing the shortest notes 
> progrssively and you'll see the changes.  Maybe a better algorithm would 
> actually count how many short notes are present, but that would need to be 
> implemented as an enhancement, and it is rare that difficulties arise for 
> 'real' music, even with this simple estimation.
I know it's a corner case.  I just stumbled over it converting examples of the 
MusicXML testsuite.

Thank you both for your explanations!
patrick