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From: | Trent Johnston |
Subject: | Layout // Multidocument |
Date: | Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:21:31 +1100 |
Good Afternoon All,
I just have a couple of questions
regarding layout.
I know that Lilypond does it best to layout a
score. This is well and fine when a score contains enough staff so one staff
group fits on each page e.g. a large orchestral score there's no problem the
score is laid out over the number of pages to be filled.
The problems occur when the number of staff's
allow staff groups to be laid out on the same page. E.g. a piano
piece has only 2 staff treble/bass so that the staves wrap to a new line not a
new page until that page is "filled". When mixed with multiple scores each
with differing amounts of staves per group (ie. 2 staves to 4
staves back to 3 etc.) then the output produced by lilypond is
interesting.
I know that the original engraving method was
to layout all the staves and barlines before any music was entered. This
gave the shape of the score and the best way that a piece could begin at
the top of one page and end at the bottom of the last page with everything being
spaced out evenly.
I assume that the lilypond layout is a mixture of
how much music can fit on a line, how many bars there are in total in a piece
and then the music is laid out evenly so that each stave line the bars and
evenly spread out.. so for example there does not end up being 11
bars for the first line 5 for the second and 2 for the last line the bars would
be spread out as evenly as possible over these 3 lines.
After playing around with the new layout routines I
found then to be very time consuming to match up the line
breaks and then start playing a guessing game with
the 'tweaks' etc.
Would it be possible tell lilypond to spread
the total bars and number of lines specified by the user and then evenly spread
those lines and staves over the page. I've used PMX / MTX which allows the user
to tell the program to spread the music over a number of systems on a number of
pages.
What I am suggesting is that the user when looking
at their layout might suggest that an extra line would better fill out their
score. ie. If a score of 2 pages the user notices that there are five lines or
music on the first page and 4 on the second they can then ask lilypond to layout
out the music over 10 lines / 5 for each page so that the score appears
even.
Regards,
Trent
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