Re: Wildly different horizontal spacing in two similar scores.

2022-03-19 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2022-03-19 at 12:49 +, Paul Hodges wrote: > I don't use that - I specify the exact number of systems I want, and > on how many pages, using: > \paper { >   system-count = xx >   page-count = yy > } > > This forces the length to be stretched to the extent I require; then > detailed adju

Re: Wildly different horizontal spacing in two similar scores.

2022-03-19 Thread Paul Hodges
I don't use that - I specify the exact number of systems I want, and on how many pages, using: \paper {   system-count = xx   page-count = yy } This forces the length to be stretched to the extent I require; then detailed adjustments can be made with \break and \pageBreak. Paul From: Ri

Re: Wildly different horizontal spacing in two similar scores.

2022-03-18 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2022-03-18 at 17:30 +, Paul Hodges wrote: > From: Richard Shann > > > > I wonder what "There is no convenient mechanism to manually > > override > > spacing. " means ... > > > I take it to mean that adjusting spacing on a smaller scale, like > within a bar, is not so easy. ah, I se

Re: Wildly different horizontal spacing in two similar scores.

2022-03-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 18/03/2022 à 18:30, Paul Hodges a écrit : *From: * Richard Shann I wonder what "There is no convenient mechanism to manually override spacing. " means ... I take it to mean that adjusting spacing on a smaller scale, like within a bar, is not so easy. Yes. In particular, while

Re: Wildly different horizontal spacing in two similar scores.

2022-03-18 Thread Paul Hodges
From: Richard Shann I wonder what "There is no convenient mechanism to manually override spacing. " means ... I take it to mean that adjusting spacing on a smaller scale, like within a bar, is not so easy. The tricks I tend to use are: (1) specify the number of systems and pages (LilyPo

Re: Wildly different horizontal spacing in two similar scores.

2022-03-18 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2022-03-18 at 12:27 +, Richard Shann wrote: > On Fri, 2022-03-18 at 12:11 +0100, Valentin Petzel wrote: > > Let’s take a look at what’s happening here: > > > > if we add > > \override Score.SpacingSpanner.common-shortest-duration = > > #(grob-transformer 'common-shortest-duration > >  

Re: Wildly different horizontal spacing in two similar scores.

2022-03-18 Thread Richard Shann
On Fri, 2022-03-18 at 12:11 +0100, Valentin Petzel wrote: > Let’s take a look at what’s happening here: > > if we add > \override Score.SpacingSpanner.common-shortest-duration = > #(grob-transformer 'common-shortest-duration >    (lambda (grob orig) (display orig) (newline) > orig)

Re: Wildly different horizontal spacing in two similar scores.

2022-03-18 Thread Valentin Petzel
Let’s take a look at what’s happening here: if we add \override Score.SpacingSpanner.common-shortest-duration = #(grob-transformer 'common-shortest-duration (lambda (grob orig) (display orig) (newline) orig)) at the beginning we will have the value of common-shortest duration o