Dear Trevor Great Thanx it works ! it was the bracket padding that i have missed. I will let you know if i encounter some impossible notation. But for the time being, Lily is the best.
Thanx to all again . Karim > On 4/5/06, karim haddad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello >> >> First of all , i wish to say thanx to everybody working on the dev of >> lily. >> the last version is great. >> >> Ok, now for some remarks. >> the nested tuplets feature which is really great has however one >> inconvenient. >> As we can see in the news doc, when these occur the brackets are too >> tight >> i.e they are too close one on the other and sometimes very hard to read. >> Is there a way to add some extra space between them. This would be >> great. > > Hi Karim, > > Two good things help with tuplet bracket positioning: > > 1. You can use > > \override TupletBracket #'staff-padding = #5.0 % or whatever value you > like > > ... to move the whole nest of brackets up to so some uniform level > above the staff; this will set all the *innermost* brackets level with > each other, meaning that toplevel brackets will just stack higher and > higher. > > 2. You can use > > \override TupletBracket #'padding = #2.3 % or whatever value you want > > ... to adjust the exact spacing that you're talking about *between* > the brackets in the nest. I find values between #1.5 and #3.0 work > nicely. > > Remember, too, if you're doing a lot of things with nested prolation > that you can control the graphic object properties of the tuplet > number with the TupletNumber grob (which is now independent of the > TupletBracket grob). And you can force the tuplet number as a fraction > with \set tupletNumberFormatFunction = #fraction-tuplet-formatter. > > Hope this helps; the total set of time-notation features in lily now > is amazing. I can't think of a better vehicle for sketching rhythmic > material for a piece. If you find something you *can't* set, please > say something. > > > -- > Trevor BaÄ?a > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
