On 13 août 2012, at 05:35, Keith OHara <k-ohara5...@oco.net> wrote:
> Peter Gentry <peter.gentry <at> sunscales.co.uk> writes:
>
>> I have a score with many
>> repeated beamed quavers and semi-quavers on ledger lines. The default
>> layout is difficult to read as ledger lines and the staff produce an almost
>> hypnotic effect which confuses the reader. This results in loss of
>> concentration and rythmic stumbles. I would like to space these beamed notes
>> out to provide white space between the notes.
>
> You can increase the gap between ledger lines:
>
> { \override Staff.LedgerLineSpanner #'minimum-length-fraction = #0.5
> \repeat "unfold" 4 { <c''' f'''>8 <d''' e'''>} }
>
> Or, possibly it would be better in your case to enforce a minimum
> spacing, so the short-duration notes do not get spaced as closely as
> usual, whether there are ledgers or not. Here I can only think of
> an indirect way, by requesting extra space in teh note-spacing step
> at the left of each stem:
>
> { \override Stem #'extra-spacing-width = #'(-1.5 . 0)
> \repeat "unfold" 4 { <c''' f'''>8 <d''' e'''>} }
>
Another solution I've seen in the music of Hans Tutschku is to use a staff
above the staff. This can be done like so:
\new Staff
\relative c'' {
a b c d |
e f g a |
b c
\stopStaff
\override Staff . StaffSymbol #'line-positions =
#'(-4 -2 0 2 4 10 12 14 16 18)
\startStaff
d e
f g a b |
c d e f |
}
Pianists tend to understand this when sight reading.
Cheers,
MS
>
>> I am finding the syntax difficult to grasp
>
> The syntax is difficult. Another difficulty is that you need to know
> to type such things as Staff.LedgerLineSpanner because ledger lines are
> handled at the Staff level (which makes sense of you think of possible
> ledger lines in music with two voices). LilyPond silently ignores
> the request if you forget the Staff (for which there is some weak excuse
> because users are free to engrave LedgerLineSpanners for each voice, if
> they need to ). There has been talk about trying to give a helpful message
> instead of silence, but it did not look easy.
>
>
>
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