This is exactly my problem! > On 08 Dec 2014, at 13:45, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This relates closely to the question I am perennially asking concerning > proportional notation. > > Is there any conceivable way in lilypond to specify a fixed and absolute > length for a measure, such as 3cm? > > Lilypond proportional notation seems to break down in this area when you are > continually changing time signatures. Or at least, I cannot get any version > to produce uniform length bars. I’d be happy just with uniform length bars > even if we can’t get an absolute size in millimetres for example. > > Does this require hacking the deep internals of the layout engines, or is it > simply impossible? > > The scores I need to set are by a colleague who is a contemporary composer > who uses a strict 3cm = 1 second metric, and I am unable to engrave the works > (with any known tool). It seems frustrating to be defeated by a composer with > a pencil and a ruler. > > Andrew > > >> On 8 Dec 2014, at 20:53, Gerjan Piksen <mister_koe...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> While I wan’t my time signature to stay the same I would like to manually >> set the length of a measure. > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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