On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 08:55:29PM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Steve D wrote: > >I recently notated a piano piece that has repeated dotted eighth-note > >chords, and the dots look too close to the following chord. I would love > >to be able to add a little space between the dots and the chord that > >follows, for example. (see attached GIF graphic)
> Hi,
> The real problem is that the dots should either be moved closer to the
> note in tight situations (preferred, but hard to do) or that the notes
> should be forced apart farther when there are dots: that should be
> doable. Would you want to sponsor that?
Thank you for your reply Han-Wen. When Mats Bengtsson mentioned that my
previously attached GIF which illustrated some crowded dotted eigth-note
chords looked like it might be a bug, I decided to take those same notes
out of the context of my piano piece and piano staff, and place them in
a minimal LilyPond file. In that new context, with the same notes and
chords, the dots are not crowded for some reason. I have attached a GIF
graphic of this lilypond file:
--- LilyPond test file below ---
% example of spacing of dotted chords containing intervals of a second
\version "2.9.14"
\paper {}
\header {}
\score {
\new Staff \relative c' { \key d \major
\times 2/3 { <d d'>4~ <d g> a' } <d, e a>8.~ <d fis a>8. <d e a>8~ |
<d e a>16~ <d fis a>8. <d e a>8.~ <d fis a>8. <d e a>8.~ <d fis a>8. |
<c e a>8.~ <c f a>8. <c e a>8.~ <c f a>8. <c e a>8.~ <c f a>16~ |
<c f a>8 <c e a>8.~ <c f a>8. <c e a>8.~ <c f a>16~ <c f a>4 |
}
\layout { }
\midi { \tempo 4=160 }
}
--- end of LilyPond test file ---
[see attached GIF graphic for output of this file, and compare it to the
GIF attached to my previous message in this thread]
I'm in the mood to sponsor LilyPond again, so if this turns out to be a
bug of some sort, I will find some other worthy feature or work to
sponsor in LilyPond. ;-)
best wishes,
Steve
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