Re: manually set visual size of a measure

[Gerjan Piksen]

This is exactly my problem!
> On 08 Dec 2014, at 13:45, Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> This relates closely to the question I am perennially asking concerning 
> proportional notation.
> 
> Is there any conceivable way in lilypond to specify a fixed and absolute 
> length for a measure, such as 3cm?
> 
> Lilypond proportional notation seems to break down in this area when you are 
> continually changing time signatures. Or at least, I cannot get any version 
> to produce uniform length bars. I’d be happy just with uniform length bars 
> even if we can’t get an absolute size in millimetres for example.
> 
> Does this require hacking the deep internals of the layout engines, or is it 
> simply impossible?
> 
> The scores I need to set are by a colleague who is a contemporary composer 
> who uses a strict 3cm = 1 second metric, and I am unable to engrave the works 
> (with any known tool). It seems frustrating to be defeated by a composer with 
> a pencil and a ruler.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
>> On 8 Dec 2014, at 20:53, Gerjan Piksen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> While I wan’t my time signature to stay the same I would like to manually 
>> set the length of a measure. 
> 
> 
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