Re: forcing even eighth notes in a single bar

[Trevor Bača]

On 8/22/06, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:
> [ v. 2.9.15 ]
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> Hello, all --
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> I've got a bar of vocal (choral) text which ends up looking a bit
> uneven:
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> Is there any easy way to force Lilypond to use "exact eighth notes"
> for just this measure?
>  From what I've seen in the docs, I'm worried that most proportional
> spacing commands are score-wide...

Hm ... I haven't checked it, but a \newSpacingSection command went in
in 2.9.something that should let you create as many different spacing
regions in a piece as you want.

So it should be possible to have

 * the first part
 * a \newSpacingSection using proportional notation for just that one measure
 * a \newSpacingSection for the remainder of the piece

Once again I haven't checked but it should work ... if it does work
could you ping the list back?

(When you play with the proportional settings, you're setting
everything relative to a certain *duration* you can think of as
vertical lines, more or less, on graph paper. Therefore, the *smaller*
the duration that you pass in, the wider your eighth notes will space;
the *large* the duration, the tighter. I recommend starting with a
16th and then try a 20th or 24th ...)


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Trevor Bača
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