Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
> > Is there a way to specify a fixed measure width throughout a piece, > > or more prefereably have all the measures on a line be the same > > width? Many fake/real books are written out this way, and I would > > like to be able to duplicate this. You could put 8 8ths or 16 16ths or whatever it t

Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Jennifer Clark wrote: Just last week, I had a job with a local jazz ensemble (I'm a (french) horn player, so this is pretty uncommon) and had to transpose a couple parts, so since I was already punching out parts with lilypond, I copied one piece that was so badly done in finale that I could barel

Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-13 Thread Jennifer Clark
> Just last week, I had a job with a local jazz ensemble (I'm a (french) > horn player, so this is pretty uncommon) and had to transpose a couple > parts, so since I was already punching out parts with lilypond, I copied > one piece that was so badly done in finale that I could barely read it. I >

Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-13 Thread Libero Mureddu
Thanks for your answer, and for the explanation about copyediting, (I didn't know and I think you are right). In my message,I was just thinking about the specific hand-written real books layout that condenses in the same paper both theme and chord changes and I was thinking about a musical motiv

Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-13 Thread Graham Percival
On 13-Sep-04, at 12:39 PM, D Josiah Boothby wrote: The workaround Graham pointed out shows that with lilypond, the task of imitating a convention which seems to be fairly straightforward shows itself to be fairly difficult to implement. I wouldn't call it difficult -- unintuitive, perhaps, but no

Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-13 Thread D Josiah Boothby
I wouldn't call it difficult -- unintuitive, perhaps, but not difficult. Definitely a better way to describe it. Josiah ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-13 Thread D Josiah Boothby
, 4+4 or 16+16 melodic/harmonic structures, and play them immediatly, maybe only looking at the chord changes, this specific layout is really useful, based on the music. Yes and no. It is bad typography, but it is also great copyediting. The convention of fixed measure widths is one which

Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-13 Thread Libero Mureddu
Hi! I think that the problem of mainstream jazz notation cannot be resolved simply answering that it's bad tipography: is simply a kind of notation that needs some different layout according to a precise musical practice: if one has to play in a gig lots of compositions that are based on 8+8,

Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-12 Thread Graham Percival
On 10-Sep-04, at 1:36 PM, Matthew Schulkind wrote: Is there a way to specify a fixed measure width throughout a piece, or more prefereably have all the measures on a line be the same width? Many fake/real books are written out this way, and I would like to be able to duplicate this. As Han said, th

Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-12 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Sorry if this has been answered before, but I could not find it in the archive. > > Is there a way to specify a fixed measure width throughout a piece, or > more prefereably have all the measures on a line be the same width? > Many fake/real books are written out this w

Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-10 Thread Matthew Schulkind
Sorry if this has been answered before, but I could not find it in the archive. Is there a way to specify a fixed measure width throughout a piece, or more prefereably have all the measures on a line be the same width? Many fake/real books are written out this way, and I would like to be able to d