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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user