Re: Cannot correctly code this rhythm...

[M Watts]

Brett Duncan wrote:
> I've been fiddling with your files, and I cannot get the main notes to 
> perfectly line up, even when I set proportionalNotationDuration to a 
> very small value. The main culprits appear to be the grace notes, as 
> Carl indicated, but also the tremolos. (A bug, maybe?)
>
> And set SpacingSpanner #'strict-grace-spacing to ##t did not seem to 
> have a discernable effect.

When I put  \override SpacingSpanner #'strict-grace-spacing to ##t into 
the score's \with block, I get errors like

programming error: No spring between column 992 and next one continuing, 
cross fingers,

and output like the attached, but it's probably because of other things 
I tried too.


Anyway, I tried moving the Spacing_engraver into the DrumStaff context, 
but I don't think it makes much difference.

I now have the following, which doesn't look too bad, but I've put in 
too many settings which try to fight each other!

\new Score \with { \remove Spacing_engraver  }
{ 
   \new DrumStaff \with {
       \override BarLine #'bar-size = #4

       \consists Spacing_engraver
       proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 2)
       \override SpacingSpanner #'uniform-stretching = ##t
       \override SpacingSpanner #'common-shortest-duration = 
#(ly:make-moment 1 16)
       \override SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration = 
#(ly:make-moment 1 8)
       \override SpacingSpanner #'average-spacing-wishes = ##t
       \override SpacingSpanner #'shortest-duration-space = #0.35
       \override SpacingSpanner #'spacing-increment = #2.45
}