I'm having a lot of trouble, mostly with spacing, in a vocal piece, using LilyPond 2.11.19. I could really use some help. I've tried various tweaks without much luck. I've gone back to the defaults so anyone willing to help will have a good starting point. The .ly files are available at http://techhouse.org/~dfeuer/misc/Everything.ly and http://techhouse.org/~dfeuer/misc/codacode.ly
The problems, roughly in priority order: 1. The spacing is oddly tight in a great many places, even where there seem to be other places on the same line that are fairly loose. See, for example, The first line, in which the full-measure rest in measure 1 is pretty big, and everything else is totally smushed, especially between notes and following bar lines The eighth rest in measure 34 The quarter rest in measure 46 If this is a bug in Lilypond's spacing algorithm, what version might I use that doesn't have this bug? 2. The lyrics aren't positioned so wonderfully. In measures 34-38 and 42-46, where the baritone splits from the bass, I wanted to put the baritone lyrics above the staff, so both sets of lyrics would be close to the notes, but the dynamics push them up away from the staff. The low notes in the alto part in measure 20 force the whole line of lyrics too far down. I guess I could push the stems up in the lower part of measure 20. Would that be reasonable? 3. I would prefer to have three systems per page. Using only set-global-staff-size doesn't accomplish that until the music gets really tiny. 4. In measure 44, there's a mysterious small dot between and a bit above the eighth note and the half note in the baritone part (at least, I see it in GSView). Many thanks in advance, David Feuer _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
