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Re: is this possible in lilypond??
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Re: is this possible in lilypond?? |
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Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:12:23 +1100 |
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?On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:59:31PM +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> (flup to list)
>
>address@hidden writes:
>
>> Dear Han Wen:
>>
>> I was asked to help a musicologist (PhD student) with some music typesetting
>> aspects of her research, for which I am considering using lilypond. Because
>> I am as of yet unfamiliar with your package, I'd like, if possible, to ask
>> you whether what we want to do is possible in lilypond (before I invest the
>> time to learn how to use the package). What we need to do is to have
>> low-level control over the distance between notes, so that we could set it
>> as a percentage of the distance between the previous notes. So, for example,
>> if "o" denotes a note, then I'd like to be able to have:
>>
>> o o
>> o o o
>> o
>> etc. (I hope you're viewing this in monospace :-) ).
>>
>> This specific example is meaningless, but you should get the idea of what we
>> want. Is this doable in lilypond? Is this easy to do?
>
> The space between notes is proportional to the log of the time
> difference of the notes, so you can fake this by selecting appropriate
> durations for each note (and switching all kinds of spacing
> tweaks). Direct control over spacing is not yet possible, though.
You could do this with MusiXTeX a lot simpler then with Lilypond,
MusiXTeX does have a steep learning curve, but for really fine control
of the final output it is second to none.
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