Re: Configurable spacing

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> I'm having to deal with this, too.  In general, 1.5 scores look better
> even to the casual observer, but my Fantasias from Bicinia Sive
> Cantionis all fit one part per page in 1.4, and sometimes go several
> lines over in 1.5.  So I have to either publish in 1.4 or go to part
> books in 1.5. (Since it's duets, you can publish two parts facing each
> other on a spread if each part fits on one page, but you need part
> books if a part is going to take up two pages.)
> 
> Has anyone figured out a good 1.5 solution to this?  Something like
> telling lily to space things a little tighter on this page?  What
> would be the best way to do that?

On 2nd thought, this widening effect in 1.5 is not
rocket-science. Lily used to space stuff per measure, which allowed
relatively empty measures (those with long notes) to be compressed
more. 1.5 uses a more global approach, which means that these sparse
measures take more space, matching their non-sparse neighbors
better. This is the one thing that really improved the look of 1.5
spacing.

If you want tighter spacing, try fiddling with spacing-increment and
shortest-duration-space in SpacingSpanner grob (i.e.

  \translator {
        \ScoreContext
        SpacingSpanner \override #'spacing-increment = ...
        }

the default settings reproduce spacing in some existing editions (see
input/baerenreiter-sarabande.ly and input/mozart-hrn-3) pretty well.

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