Re: Uniform, "graph-paper" spacing?

[Trevor Baca]

Yes, and perhaps the implementation of such a "snap-to-grid" or
"metronomic-time" or "graph-paper" spacing could simply be some
routine, call it "uniform_spacing", noticed by the Spacing_engraver
and passed to the SpacingSpanner as the value of the
"spacing-procedure":

\set SpacingSpanner '#spacing-procedure = 'uniform_spacing

This is complicated, of course, because it means writing such a
uniform_spacing routine in the first place. But perhaps much, much
less complicated than the extreme sophistication already built into
the existing set_springs routine, which captures the elegance of
engraver spacing. uniform_spacing, for example, would take no notice
whatever of the width of accidentals, scripts, etc: merely the time
values of notes and rests, with the width of all preferatory material
subtracted before dividing up the time axis evenly between the
duration of the system.

Or is all this overthinking the problem? Is there already a way to
tweak "shortest-duration-space" and / or "spacing-increment" and / or
"base-shortest-duration" to create uniform spacing?

Trevor.


On 7/14/05, joe ferguson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sounds like what is wanted is a sort of a "snap-to-grid" feature, where
> the grid is a one-dimension, uniform time (metronome time) sequence.
> "Snap-to-grid" is a pretty common feature in graphic design systems, so
> there ought to be some pretty good approaches to the problem in the
> literature.
> 
> Trevor Baca wrote:
> 
> >Hello Lily users,
> >
> >Is it possible to ensure all measures exactly the same width
> >throughout a piece, *without the hidden voice workaround*?
> >
> >What I'm finding is that the hidden voice workaround doesn't *exactly*
> >get it, especially at small staff sizes, with a large number of
> >measures per page, with many tuplets; with the hidden voice, the first
> >measure on the line, for example, tends to assume more space than the
> >following measures on the line.
> >
> >And, yes, of course classical engraving standards abhor this type of
> >"graph-paper" spacing (see list thread between Michael Lakes and Mats
> >Bengstsson for a good discussion), but please trust me that the
> >musical context here is quite different: when you get past a certain
> >number of differently rational rhythms (tuplets) across many, many
> >instruments what you want is *exactly* this type of regularity in the
> >horizontal axis.
> >
> >So, is there a direct way to ensure exactly even measure length, on a
> >system-wide or score-wide basis?
> >
> >Trevor.
> >
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> Joe Ferguson
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