Juergen Reuter schrieb:
Hi all,
as far as I understand, all problems with incipits boil down to the
following two major issues:
(1) horizontal spacing, and
(2) the system start delimiter.
Karl's solution unfortunately leaves horizontal space between the
incipit and the actual score; hence it does *not* solve issue (2).
Rather, the score lines should not stop inbetween.
Well, I am not so sure about that. I agree, the space is a bit too big
here, but I personally like Nocolas' solution where the space mainly
covers the distance between the choirstaff brace and the beginning of
the staff. I know that much incipits are engraved with the double line
method that is now used in the templates, but it feels logical to me
that the "real" staff with the brace start only after the incipit. I
somehow recall this would be also "hand engraved convention", but I
might be wrong. There is an example pdf on the list sent by Stefan
Slapeta that shows a broad range of incipits which show mainly the staff
lines going through all the way. So it might be my personal opinion only
that it would be nice to have the incipit seperated by a little white space.
Till
IMHO, all other features have been quite well demonstrated in template
A.5.1 for a while now. Hence, you probably should concentrate on
solving these two remaining issues.
Regarding issue (2), maybe the "right" solution is to extend the
system start delimiter implementation in such a way, that
(a) automatic printing at the system start may be suppressed for a
specific range of the score with kind of
"\turnSystemStartDelimiterOff" and "\turnSystemStartDelimiterOn"
commands, and
(b) a kind of "\bar #'system-start-delimiter" command prints an
additional system start delimiter whereever you want. (But if this
bar should happen to appear at the system start, the delimiter
should not be printed twice.)
Regarding issue (1), I am not sure what the "right" solution is.
Please note that the note durations in the incipit are typically much
larger than in the actually score. Karl and Nicolas, did you check
what happens with the horizontal spacing in your incipit solutions, if
you double or quadruple the note durations in the incipit (and only
there)? In your examples, in the incipts you are unfortunately using
the same durations as in the actual score. I may be wrong, but I
suspect that your solutions do *not* solve issue (1).
IIRC, the spacing engine maintains a variable that keeps track of
shortest available duration in a peace in computes the ideal distance
of larger note values in a logarithmic scale based on the shortest
duration. Maybe this computation needs to be changed for the incipit
(and only there!) to get tighter spacing in the incipit.
Greetings,
Juergen
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