Maybe you want proportional notation:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Proportional-notation#Proportional-notation
A bit involved, but worth the effort once you get it working right.
On 5/19/10, tiM Sportny <tiporic...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Niel Thornock:
>> Hi Tim,
>> How does it "get worse"? I've done similar things, scaling durations
>> in the free part, with perfectly acceptable results. I'm not sure
>> here which exact problems you are encountering.
>
> It's not that LP does anything wrong, I'm looking for a way to let LP do it
> wrong. So in the example below, i want equal spacing between the eights, no
> matter what's happening in the improvisation measure below it. Looking at
> the example the notes in the upper measure are "making room" for what
> happens in the improvisation measure below it. But since i don't care about
> timing i'd prefer the notes to be equidistant. And this also works the other
> way around. The glissando from the low to the ases is making room for two
> eights above, making the glissando wider, but again, I don't want LP to care
> about that.
>
> With "getting worse" i mean that the stuff i've tried (like temporarily
> setting the timing off) only has side effects and not the intended result.
>
>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:10 AM, tiM Sportny wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear List,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to write down improvisation clues that have to be played
>>> within a few measures. Since these are just clues/suggestions there is no
>>> need to align the notes with other staves, i.e. I don't want it to be
>>> aligned.
>>>
>>> In the example below, the only thing LP should care about is that the
>>> total size of the upper measures matches the total size of the
>>> "improvisation measure" below it. It shouldn't care about which note
>>> comes first, since the one playing the solo, shouldn't care about it
>>> either. (of course this is just a silly simplified example).
>>>
>>> Has anyone had any experience with this? I've tried a lot of things, but
>>> it only seemed to get worse and worse.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>> \version "2.12.0"
>>>
>>> improv = { \relative c''{ \scaleDurations #'( 16 . 17 ){ b8[ des b deses
>>> b des b deses b deses b] ases4 \glissando ases' \glissando a, }}}
>>>
>>> \score {
>>> \new StaffGroup <<
>>> \new Staff {
>>> \repeat unfold 8 b8
>>> \repeat unfold 8 b8
>>> \repeat unfold 8 b8
>>> \repeat unfold 8 b8
>>> }
>>> \new Staff {
>>> R1
>>> \cadenzaOn
>>> \improv
>>> \cadenzaOff
>>> \bar "|"
>>> R1
>>> }
>>> >>
>>>
>>>
>>> \layout {
>>> \context {
>>> \Score
>>> \remove "Timing_translator"
>>> \remove "Default_bar_line_engraver"
>>> \remove "Bar_number_engraver"
>>>
>>> }
>>> \context {
>>> \Staff
>>> \consists "Timing_translator"
>>> \consists "Default_bar_line_engraver"
>>> }
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
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>> The recent BYU Symphony Orchestra performance of Plutoids:
>> http://neilthornock.net/mp3s/plutoids.mp3
>> Assistant Professor of Music
>> Composition/Theory
>> Brigham Young University
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