On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Robert Memering wrote:
Am Montag, 11. Februar 2008 16:36 schrieb Juergen Reuter:
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.
IMO, horizontal spacing in incipits should be completely
"turned off", i.e. uniform (and rather tight) spacing
regardless of note values, as seen in the renaissance
manuscripts.
Robert
Yes, IIRC we once used to have a global boolean variable "compact" for
exactly this purpose, but I think it never worked as expected due to the
complex resolving of competetive spacing constraints. Remember that you
almost always need to stretch something somewhere to get your line of
score filled; so you can not achieve solely uniform spacing unless in
combination with ragged printing of systems. I guess switching from
uniform ragged spacing in the incipit to non-uniform spacing in the
remaining score would require a major rewrite of the whole horizontal
spacing engine.
Greetings,
Juergen
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