Re: Grace notes with fixed spacing

[Phil Holmes]

Some further thoughts below

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Lowe" <address@hidden>
To: "Sven Axelsson" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 3:47 PM
Subject: RE: Grace notes with fixed spacing


Hello, I' m sorry I'll type that again...

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From: address@hidden 
address@hidden on behalf of Sven 
Axelsson address@hidden
Sent: 29 December 2010 15:17
To: address@hidden
Subject: Grace notes with fixed spacing

Hi list.

Yes, I have rtfm, but I didn't find the answer, so here goes.

Is there some way to always render a group of notes (grace notes in
this case, but I guess this would be a general fix) with a fixed
spacing that is not affected by the layout process? In my case I need
it for typesetting Scottish Highland Bagpipe music, which has lots of
complex gracenotes and (generally) a requirement for a fixed number of
bars per line. This will often make the grace notes very uneven which
does not look so good. I would like to always render the grace note
groups with the same inter-note spacing and only have the layout
process add space between "normal" notes.

I've attached some examples of differences in spacing for the same note 
group.

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[snip James' thoughts]

You might also want to look at the information about proportional notation:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/proportional-notation

Also you could consider using small normal notes rather than grace notes - 
this way the time interval occupied by the note is maintained.

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Phil Holmes