Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

[Abraham Lee]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:09 AM, David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Abraham Lee <address@hidden> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:39 AM, James Harkins <address@hidden> wrote:

Something I've been wondering about for awhile... lilypond.org boasts of "optical spacing" for notes with alternating up and down stems, but it seems this feature has been lost somewhere (or disabled by default). In this example, it's quite plain to my eyes that the stems are not equally spaced within the bars. \version "2.18.2" \relative c'' { e4 c, f' d, g' e, a' f, } Which is correct -- the website, or LP's behavior? hjh _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list address@hidden https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

James,

I would have to disagree with you. I think the notes look very nicely spaced. I think you are misunderstanding what "optical spacing" implies. It doesn't mean that the stems will be placed equidistant from each other. That would look awful because of how far that would push the noteheads out of place!

Equally spaced stems do look nice with groupings that change staff constantly, however.  I remember that SCORE had a feature that enabled this.  I've often thought that LilyPond should have this option, but haven't studied the problem enough to know how it could be implemented. 

--David

That's fair. I can imagine what that looks like, but do you happen to have an example score that shows this? Not important if you don't.

-Abraham