Re: struggling to get horizontal space on the page exactly proportional to time

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 08/07/2021 19:50, Sam Roberts <vieuxt...@gmail.com> a écrit :

Sorry for the delayed response. unsetting the ragged and adding the

terminating thingy (sorry, don't know its name), looks better, thanks!

But it still doesn't get me what I'd call "proportional".

I'd like the horizontal space taken by these 3 bars to be

***exactly*** the same, since they each take exactly 3 ticks on the

metronome to play:

\time 3/4

a4 a a |

a2 a4 |

a2. |

But the way they are rendered, the whitespace gets tweeked so the more

notes that are drawn in the bar, the wider it gets, and all three end

up being different lengths.

I've searched the docs, and I'm trying to use

\set proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1/4)

but I'm finding the documentation difficult to understand, and the

variants I've tried don't seem to do anything to the layout.

Aren't you missing the context name? Try

\set Score.proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1/4)

Best,

Jean