Hi, Is it possible to manipulate the horizontal spacing settings differently for different sections of a piece?
The situation: This score is currently for sheng solo. (Eventually I might add some graphic representations of the electronic parts, but they are indeterminate and I haven't figured out how to notate them yet.) Most of it looks fine, except for a section in the middle with a lot of 16th notes. That section appears too tightly spaced for my taste. So I would like to adjust the spacing only for that section. (Other sections look great as they are.) I tried overriding Score.SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration, using smaller note values, but it made no difference in the output. I put the override at the beginning of one of the music variables for that section. Part of my reason for wanting to do this is that the score fits on six pages except for one staff system. I suspect one reason why there is so little music on the seventh page is that lilypond (maybe?) is trying aggressively to fit everything on six pages, over-compressing the notation in some places, but it still isn't enough. So I figured, one way to get a more reasonable seventh page would be to loosen the notation horizontally a bit. (I'll also open up system-system-spacing #'padding in the \paper block.) Actually, at high-resolution, the tight spacing doesn't look *bad* exactly, but there are a lot of repeated notes and chords and I worry that if it's too compact, it may be too easy to lose your place while reading. Advice welcome -- thanks -- hjh PS I just want to commend the list again for the really excellent help that's offered here. The last section of the piece that I entered into LP is mostly cadenza material, and I got the notes and barlines in place in less than an hour, thanks to the \cadenzaToMusic function that someone (David?) gave me a few months ago. So efficient... you folks are great, and the tool is too! -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user