Re: Reduce width of single measure

[James]

Matthew/Xavier

On 8 January 2012 20:11, Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 8 January 2012 20:22, James <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Xavier,
>>
>> […]
>>
>> I tried to use this myself on the first bar of a piece to get a
>> 'squashed' hairpin linger by extending the measure but I cannot seem
>> to *only* make it affect the first measure.
>>
>> version "2.14.1"
>>
>> \relative c' {
>>  \time 3/4
>>  \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'spacing-increment = #2
>>  \newSpacingSection
>>  c'2.\sfz\> |
>>  \revert Score.SpacingSpanner #'spacing-increment
>>  c4\f c r | c2.\fz\> |
>>  r4 r g8\fz r |
>> }
>>
>> The rest of the measures are also affected. I wonder if you or anyone
>> else knows how to do this just for a single measure.
>
> James,
>
> I am a simple user, not the "horizontal spacing expert" developer.  ;-)
> I guess if you add  \newSpacingSection  when using
>  \revert Score.SpacingSpanner #'spacing-increment  it should do it.

Ah yes that makes sense. Thank you.

>
> But if you want *only* to increase the length of the hairpin, I strongly
> recommend you to use  \once \override Hairpin #'minimum-length = #8

Yes that is a nicer solution for what I need to do.

Again, thank you.


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James