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Re: [Denemo-devel] Large distance between notes in Denemo display


From: Andreas Schneider
Subject: Re: [Denemo-devel] Large distance between notes in Denemo display
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 20:56:11 +0100
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Am 16.01.2017 um 09:58 schrieb Richard Shann:
> On Sun, 2017-01-15 at 20:37 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
>> Am 15.01.2017 um 20:07 schrieb Richard Shann:
>>> On Sun, 2017-01-15 at 19:59 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
>>>> For some unknown reason,
>>>
>>> you have a time signature of 1/4 so it will be assigning a whole bar to
>>> each 1/4 note. 
>>>
>>>>  I get a very large distance between notes in
>>>> the Denemo display which prevents me from seeing and editing some notes,
>>>> see attachement. Denemo does not allow bars wider than the width of the
>>>> editor window. I had split the chant into bars at the divisio to make it
>>>> editable. But now the spacing has become much wider, and I have come to
>>>> and end even with my large screen resolution of 2560x1440.
>>>
>>> I don't claim to understand how this spacing stuff works (it dates from
>>> 1999) but I think you will need to adopt another approach... what are
>>> you trying to do?
>>
>> I'm trying to improve the spacing of the notes and the alignment of the
>> text according to the lilypond manual,
>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/working-with-ancient-music_002d_002dscenarios-and-solutions#transcribing-gregorian-chant
>> (the last example in this section).
> 
> Thinking about this the Apparent Time Signature command may not be the
> best. Just use the 256/1 cadenza time signature (which is a Denemo
> special, avoiding coloring in the incomplete measures etc) and put the
> LilyPond syntax \time 4/1 at the start of the music - for testing
> purposes just use Insert LilyPond to do that. For a proper job the
> LilyPond syntax desired would go in as part of the override to the time
> signature so it didn't show up at the start of the music.

What do you mean by 256/1 cadenza time signature? I searched the command
center for "cadenza" and found "Start Cadenza Time" and "End Cadenza
Time", but I guess that is not what you mean?

Andreas



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