Re: Petrucci-like spacing?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Henning Plumeyer wrote:
> > \relative c'' {
> >   \key f \major g1*1/4 bes1*1/4 a1*1/4 g1*1/4 d'1.*1/6 c4 bes4 c1*1/4
> > }
>
> Hi, Carl,
> could you explain why this works? I would have expected that g1*1/4 is
> exactly the same as g4, but it is obviously not.
It looks like a whole note but has the duration of a quarter note, when 
LilyPond determines the spacing. If you don't want to add "*1/4" for 
every single note, there is a command \scaleDurations to apply this kind 
of scaling for a whole section of music. All this is well described in 
Subsection "Scaling durations" in "1.2.1 Writing Rhythms" in the 
Notation Reference.

  /Mats