On 17 February 2010 12:00, Christian <christian....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am encountering some spacing issues with a piece I angraved with lilypond. > How can I ajust (1) the number of measures on a system, Add explicit \break is the easiest way, as far as I know. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Breaks Or "simply" change the staff-size "#(set-global-staff-size 14)" http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Setting-the-staff-size > the (2) with of an individual measure. According to the documentation: > There is no convenient mechanism to manually override [horizontal] spacing. > The following work-around may be used to insert extra space into a score, > adjusting the padding value as necessary. > > \override Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn #'padding = #10 > > No work-around exists for decreasing the amount of space. You could find some ideas in NR 4.5 "Horizontal spacing" http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Horizontal-spacing Or use invisible rests of small values in parallel. << c1 { \repeat unfold 4 { s16 s s s } } >> > And how can I (3) place whole-measure rests in the middle of the measure? By default they are. Are you sure you use an *uppercase* 'R'? Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user