I'm transcribing a Mendelssohn score, and am trying to get Lilypond to pack notes about as densely as they are in the original score. For example, trying to fit a snippet like this onto a single line:
\version "2.16.2"
\language "english"
\relative c''' {
\key e \minor
\mark \default
b2->\f\>(\times 2/3 { b8\!)[fs8-1(g8] a8[g8-3 fs8] } |
\times 2/3 { g8->)[ds-1(e8] fs8[e8 ds8] e8)[as,-1(b-2] c-3[b-2 as-1] |
b8-1->)[fs(g] a[g fs] } g->) e\<(g) b_- |
e8---4 e---0 g-- b-- e4.---0\sf(e8-.) |
e2(\sf\> \times 2/3 { e8\!)[b8-2(c8] d8[c8 b8] } |
}
I've tried adding:
\override SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 1)
But this seems to have no or only very little effect on the default spacing, even with make-moment up to 2/1 or higher. For reference I'd like the formatting to match something like this:
I can get the desired result by adding a "\noBreak" at the end of every bar but that's very laborious and makes the .ly file quite a bit uglier. (even using an alias like nb = { \noBreak })
Are there other tricks for very densely formatted scores?
Steve