Re: proportional spacing… ?

[Pierre Perol-Schneider]

2014-05-11 1:02 GMT+02:00 Paul Malcolm <address@hidden>:

Dear Pierre, thanks for the reply. I tried the staff size change you suggested and it 

didn't seem to work. 

I checked my version number with (from the command line prompt) lilypond -v

Im running version 2.14.2 on a MacBook Pro

Well, then delete \version "2.10.33" in your code.
 

If I turn off all my naive attempts at controlling the horizontal spacings I get what is 

shown in the attached file. The last 5 lines are what Im looking for, but this is strange 

as effectively all measures in the file are the same in number of notes. 

I think you have to admit that it simply doesn't fit on a single A4 page.

You can either change page dimension or try something like :

\paper {

   indent = 0

   ragged-last-bottom = ##f

   ragged-bottom = ##f

   system-count = 21

   page-count = 2

}

to get it on two pages.

 

I also tried some snippets but they failed to generate pdf file. 

For example this snippet

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/7d/lily-6dd58ff7.ly

I got an error saying incorrect number of argument in the make-moment. 

This is also puzzling. I understand make-moment to take two arguments, but the 

snippet lists what appears to be a single argument like a fraction a/b

Is this a new version of make-moment that is not supported by the version of 

lilypond I am using perhaps ? 

Absolutely, wrong version.

for v2.14 use :
  \override SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 2)

HTH,
Pierre