Re: Note spacing

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> > Hello to everybody.
> > 
> > I am using Lilypond 1.5.64, and I need to change the average distance
> > between consecutive notes in a score. The score I am typesetting takes 45
> > pages (!), but Lily places often only 2 or 3 widely spaced bars per line.
> > I would like to force Lily to shrink a bit the whole thing to get 4 or 5
> > bars per line.
> 
> If you think that Lilypond gives too wide spacing, please send
> an example to the list so the problem can be solved.
> However, if you want to tweak the default layout yourself, 
> you could try some different options:

I know and noticed some problems with wide spacing myself, but we can
only adequately analyse the problem when you compare lily's output
with printed editions, and use exactly the same linewidth and font
settings.

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