[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Why so much space for the first quarter note? The 9:4 tuplets are the > > > shortest duration notes, so I would expect them to drive most of the > > > spacing, but they look very irregular. > > > > This is a dilemma; in single staff music, the (stretchable) space > > should be from right-edge of a symbol to the left-edge of the > > following. Unfortunately, this approach does not work well for > > polyphonic pieces, where the left-edges of the notes should follow a > > regular pattern. Currently, LilyPond uses a compromise between > > different staves; probably, we should switch off all delicate optical > > spacing for polyphonic parts, and use the left-edge of symbols exclusively. > > This could however have a negative impact on simple polyphonic music, e.g. > 18th c. duos where the two parts often have the same rhythm. > > Would a possible solution be to calculate both a polyphonic-style and > monophonic-style spacing, calculate a measure of how much rhythmical > difference there is between parts, and then do some kind of interpolation > between the spacings, weighted by that measure?
Perhaps ; however, it sounds like a complex solution. We should first try the simple solution (use left-edges for polyphony), and then try to solve the problems we find with > Hopefully this could simulate quite well how a human engraver works. And, > perhaps it could help improving cases like bugs/clef-rest.ly? I doubt it. The mm-rest is a spanner; the position of the rest is not determined by the spacing-engine. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
