Thanks for the help on the stem lengths. Still not getting any joy with the measure widths. I suspect that something else is conflicting and will have to investigate further.
Thanks again! -David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Morley" <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> To: bobr...@centrum.is Cc: "Lillypond Users Mailing List" <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 9:46:03 PM Subject: Re: horizontal control 2015-01-21 17:54 GMT+01:00 bobr...@centrum.is <bobr...@centrum.is>: > I want to compress a specific measure horizontally. It contains a full > measure rest and nothing else. I have tried various searches but have not > found how to do this. Can someone point me to the place in the docs where > this is explained? > > Thanks, > > David You could try: \version "2.18.2" \score { \relative c' { \repeat unfold 8 c'8 \newSpacingSection \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 2) R1 \newSpacingSection \repeat unfold 8 c'8 } \layout { ragged-right = ##f } } Cheers, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user