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Re: clusters: note spacing problem and other things


From: David Pirotte
Subject: Re: clusters: note spacing problem and other things
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 11:56:56 +0200

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> 
> I definitely recommend that you keep to the stable 1.4.8 release
> for the moment. The 1.5.x releases contain too many bugs to be
> useful for some serious typesetting at the moment.

OK, I'll download immediately

> You have already received an answer for the compilation problem,
> if you still have problems with clusters (I'm not 100% sure
> what kind of problem you refer to), please send a new example
> that has correct syntax. If the problem is colliding note heads,
> Lilypond implements a number of rules of thumb that can handle
> the easiest problems, see the test example
> input/regression/collisions.ly, but for more complicated cases
> you may have to specify the horizontal offset for each voice
> using the force-hshift property (see input/test/force-hshift.ly
> example file, but correct 'forced-hshift' to 'force-hshift'
> otherwise it doesn't work). See also the section on Polyphony
> in the reference manual.

many thanks for the hint, I'll produce a syntactic correct example, dig
into the doc (I do that already, but it take some times to figure out things,
so thanks for answering despite manual, it helps me a lot!)

> This possibility was removed some months ago to simplify the
> frontend of the program. I miss it as much as you do.

ok, i understand

> It seems the documentation is slightly out of date and the interface
> is a bit non-intuitive. Anyway, the following lines of code should
> work
> 
>   \clef bass
>   \property Staff.clefOctavation = #-15
>   \property Staff.OctavateEight \set #'text = #"15"
>   \property Staff.centralCPosition = #13

really great, i'll try that immediately
thanks a lot

thanks to other people who responded too, i'll correct my example, download
install 1.4.8 and see how things work

david



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