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Re: MultiMeasureRest symbol spacing
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David Nalesnik |
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Re: MultiMeasureRest symbol spacing |
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Sat, 31 Dec 2016 12:46:33 -0600 |
On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:27 AM, David Nalesnik
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:20 AM, David Nalesnik
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hmmm....
>>
>> I'm having misgivings about the idea of fixed space between symbols.
>>
>> Looking at several Breitkopf & Härtel parts, I see rests spaced to
>> fill available space. Though, because spacing is compact, we never
>> see the awful behavior Jan-Peter's example reveals.
>>
>> http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.2,_Op.73_(Brahms,_Johannes)#Parts
>> http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.1,_Op.21_(Beethoven,_Ludwig_van)#Parts
>>
>> Instead of having fixed spacing between symbols, would it be better to
>> have a limit on how much a rest can be stretched? This would be
>> expressed in staff-spaces (like the current minimum which is
>> hard-coded as 1 staff-space).
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> Another observation from the parts cited above:
>>
>> LilyPond creates an 8-bar church rest (rests.M3) which is a composite
>> of 2 four-bar symbols (rests.M2): see
>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/the-feta-font#rest-glyphs
>> The cited parts do use a composite glyph, rather two normally spaces
>> 4-bar symbols.:
>
> Oh my. "The cited parts don't use a composite glyph, rather two
> normally spaced 4-bar symbols."
>
>>
>> In the following, we get an 8-bar symbol followed by a whole rest.
>> Should there be at least an option to have this expressed as three
>> equally-spaced symbols: 4 + 4 + 1?
>>
>> \version "2.19.53"
>>
>> {
>> \compressFullBarRests
>> R1*9
>> }
This can be done with
\override Staff.MultiMeasureRest.usable-duration-logs = #'(-2 -1 0)
So no matter!
- Re: MultiMeasureRest symbol spacing, (continued)
- Re: MultiMeasureRest symbol spacing, David Nalesnik, 2016/12/24
- Re: MultiMeasureRest symbol spacing, Jan-Peter Voigt, 2016/12/27
- Re: MultiMeasureRest symbol spacing, Phil Holmes, 2016/12/27
- Re: MultiMeasureRest symbol spacing, David Nalesnik, 2016/12/29
- Re: MultiMeasureRest symbol spacing, Jan-Peter Voigt, 2016/12/29
- Re: MultiMeasureRest symbol spacing, David Nalesnik, 2016/12/31
- Re: MultiMeasureRest symbol spacing, David Nalesnik, 2016/12/31
- Re: MultiMeasureRest symbol spacing,
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