Thank you Xavier, your solution worked perfectly!I know it seems strange for me to specify proportional notation and then override it, but I'm embedding many such lilypond snippets within a document (using LaTeX and lilypond-book) where I need the proportional, uniform and strict positioning of the chords (to align multiple snippets with each other and with external graphics) but the long space at the end was problematic in exceeding the document's page margins.Thanks again,Nick
On Wednesday, 21 December 2022 at 20:35:47 GMT, Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com> wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 20:13, NickS <nickstylia...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion Mark... adding ragged-right = ##t stretches out the > stave across the page width (175mm), ragged-right = ##f reverts to the > default behaviour (stave 78mm wide), with still too much clear space at the > end (18.75mm, the same as the clear space between the chords). Hello, That's the point of proportional notation: to have the same space after notes of the same duration (so after the last note as well).If you want to reduce the space after the last note you could trick/cheat by multiplying its value. <c' e' g'>4 <e' g' c''> <g' c'' e''>4*1/2 \bar "|." Cheers,Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com>