Hi Graham,
Copylist duly noted - I wasn't sure of etiquette.
There is nothing else to my script, so unless it's part of the "mensural" set
up, there is no \paper { ragged-right = ##t } or any other related setting.
What I meant by the other remark was exactly what you did when you said "\break
is your friend" - the documentation is excellent, once I've figured out what to
look for, so the trick is to know what things are called. Using \melisma is a
case in point. I'm not familiar with the term so I didn't know to look for it
and got to it because it's in a snippet I copied because I recognized the note
shapes. So, telling me "read up about \blah" is really helpful. It's great to
get a leg up but obviously I need to learn, in order to be self-sufficient. The
sleuthing is fun too, but sometimes you just want the answer 😉
Best
Giles
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From: Graham King <lilyp...@tremagi.org.uk>
Sent: 08 May 2024 10:20
To: Giles Boardman <giles.board...@hotmail.co.uk>; lilypond-user@gnu.org
<lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Spacing in mensural notation
Hi Giles,
please copy the list: it helps others, and you might get better advice than I
can offer.
Thoughts interspersed below...
On Wed, 2024-05-08 at 07:56 +0000, Giles Boardman wrote:
Hello Graham,
This is perfect, except it only affects the last line. The lines wrap and the
rests are where they should be in relation to the rest of the notes, but only
the portion on the last line has been re-spaced.
Do you have this line?
\paper { ragged-right = ##t }
It sounds like you might have ragged-last = ##t set somewhere.
I'm going to look at treating each line in the original as a new piece of music.
That sounds like a difficult way to set about things. \break is your friend,
once we've solved the problem above.
Then I could mimic the original layout, which would be the best solution for
comparison anyway. So far I've mainly been working on getting data into
Lilypond so I can see whathappens ot it when I stat to play around, so any
suggestions as to how to go about this and what to be looking for in the
documentation would be most welcome.
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking here. For keeping changes under
control, a revision control system such as git is invaluable.
For searching the documentation, the index in the back of the Notation
Reference (NR) is invaluable. And the Snippets Repository at
https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/ and the mailing list archive at
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/ can be very helpful.
Best
Giles
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