Re: Horizontal note spacing

[Mike Solomon]

On 1 oct. 2013, at 13:59, LaurenH <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm looking for a music writing program that will allow me to precisely
> control horizontal spacing for use in a psychology sight-reading study.
> Though I've found information on how to pad accidentals etc I was wondering
> if someone could help with a few more detailed horizontal spacing questions:
> 
> (1) I need to be able to choose how wide a bar is (e.g. 3cm, or 1/8 the
> total page-width), and make each system's spacing the same. I'd need this
> width to be set regardless of what is in the bar. Is this possible? 
> 
> (2) I additionally need to define the distances between notes (i.e. ratio of
> 2 for each doubled duration) and I need this to be completely unaffected by
> accidentals- i.e I want no padding around accidentals. Is this possible? 
> 
> I'd really appreciate someone letting me know whether Lilypond would be an
> appropriate program to use for my study. Thanks, Lauren
> 

LilyPond can probably do (2) via its proportional notation commands.  (1) is 
possible if you make the line skip at each bar.  Otherwise, you'd have to make 
changes to the C++ code used to compile the LilyPond executable.  The changes 
wouldn't be complicated but would require working knowledge of C++.

Cheers,
MS