On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:27 AM, David Nalesnik <david.nales...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:20 AM, David Nalesnik > <david.nales...@gmail.com> 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! _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
