Re: Spacing problems with triplets

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/6/21 Urs Liska <address@hidden>:
> Am 21.06.2013 22:44, schrieb Janek Warchoł:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> 2013/6/20 Mike Solomon <address@hidden>:
>>>
>>> On 19 juin 2013, at 16:24, Tim McNamara <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Occasionally LilyPond will render triplets in an ungraceful manner:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> This is not a problem in 2.17.21 with the following input : [...]
>>
>> I've seen the output like Tim posted many times.  Of course, it
>> happens only when there's some other voice/chords/whatever that has a
>> different rhythm, but the spacing shouldn't look like this.
>> I did some testing and in my opinion it doesn't make sense to attempt
>> fixing this without a small team of at least 2-3 coders that would
>> examine the spacing code in whole and rewrite it as necessary.  I
>> believe that without organized effort attempts of fixing this will
>> most likely result in applying duct tape to the code.
>> I'm willing to be part of such team.
>
>
> As a duct tape I recall that it _can_ help to restart the spacing (something
> like newSpacingSection?).
> Urs


Quite probably.  And/or overriding SpacingSpanner common-shortest-duration.
Janek