Re: Fixed width measures (or another good way to do this)

[Fred Leason]

I suggest programming lilypond to format ragged right ##f (justified)  
single bars of length 4 inches for each the cantor and congregation.   
Then use lilypond-book to make individual eps (or pdf) files.  You  
can then paste those images into a larger document in the two 4 inch  
each columns you are looking for.  Or, you can use latex (or  
pdflatex) to make the two column format.

If you send some samples, I'd be glad to play around with it.  I'm  
getting better at the lilypond-book stuff.

Fred Leason

On Feb 15, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Geoff Horton wrote:

> I'm working on some unmetered music that essentially needs to fall
> into two columns--cantor on the left, congregation on the right. It
> would be great if I could get all the measures to be of the same width
> so that the columns would line up neatly. Searching the mailing list,
> the only solution I found is to add a row of invisible 32nd notes (or
> whatever duration I like) in each measure. Since all the measures
> aren't the same musical length, I'd have to do some hefty
> duration-scaling to make it come out right, and I'd rather not if
> there's another way to do this. Is there?
>
> Geoff
>
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