Re: `fitting music onto fewer pages'

[Werner LEMBERG]

> >       \override SpacingSpanner
> >                 #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 15)
> 
> I'm happy to add this... but what does #(ly:make-moment 1 15) do?

It seems that this is simply handled as a rational number.  

> I thought that make-moment X Y created a duration of X Y-notes (ie 5
> 4 would create a duration of length 5 quarter notes).  I don't think
> we have any 15th notes... or was that just a typo for 16?

No, it wasn't.  LilyPond doesn't care whether such a note actually
exists (at least this is the impression I get since LilyPond doesn't
produce any warnings); it uses the specified moment as a factor to
control the global spacing.


    Werner