Hi Jan-Peter! On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Jan-Peter Voigt <jp.vo...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi David, > > happy new year! > I do understand the concerns about this matter. Most instrumental parts > shouldn't have this problem, as the measures will be spaced well. And in > most cases spreaded church rests probably indicate bad spacing or > line-breaking. > > But still - in my opinion - an option to set a maximum distance would serve > for cases I am facing right now, where long church rests are followed by one > measure of cues which indicate the end of a recitative and display the last > notes and words. You will not find such cues very often, but whenever I > prepare parts like that I receive thanks from the musicians. In the attached > image your patch prevents spreading the 6-measure-rest. Perhaps an optional > maximum would be acceptable. >
It should. In this case (I project that) you would do an override like this: \override MultiMeasureRest.max-symbol-separation = 2 That would make 2 staff-spaces the effective distance in your example, because obviously LilyPond would want to make the distance much greater. (In fact, with a value like 2, you'd probably get a uniform spacing throughout the document, since it's probably rare that default spacing would be less than that.) Setting the value to something like 6 would allow the distance to vary with shorter measures of different sizes, but would cap the spread to 6 so the rest would still be legible when spacing is loose. Happy New Year to you, too! David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
