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

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 20:56 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> 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?

it *is* what I mean - look at the scripts there, you will set they set
up a special 256/1 time signature (as far as Denemo is concerned) which
is treated as "do not warn about measures incomplete"...

Richard

> 
> Andreas