Am 8. Dezember 2014 13:45:18 MEZ, schrieb Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com>: >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.
Hihi, that's what I say so often, thanks for the use case (quite obvious but escaped me so far). I'm just preparing an interview on Scores of Beauty where I intend to ask composers how their different notation tools affect their creativity. Urs > >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 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
