Re: Generous Measure Lengths?

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/7/26 Rico Viejo <address@hidden>:
> I want to use lilypond to make sheet music more legible (to my old eyes, as 
> PDFs on an iPad with page-turning by the AutoFlip app). I replicated a work 
> by Satie which has a quarter note as its shortest. The published-in-France 
> (slightly illegible) original has four or five measures per line (12 or 15 
> beats). My lilypond version has 12 measures or 36 beats per line. Too dense! 
> Not trying to save space! I have searched the manuals and archives, but have 
> not found a way to generously space the notes like those in the original 
> sheet music. Suggestions, please.

See Notation Reference chapter 4.5
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/changing-horizontal-spacing

HTH,
Janek