Re: manually set visual size of a measure

[Andrew Bernard]

This relates closely to the question I am perennially asking concerning 
proportional notation.

Is there any conceivable way in lilypond to specify a fixed and absolute length 
for a measure, such as 3cm?

Lilypond proportional notation seems to break down in this area when you are 
continually changing time signatures. Or at least, I cannot get any version to 
produce uniform length bars. I’d be happy just with uniform length bars even if 
we can’t get an absolute size in millimetres for example.

Does this require hacking the deep internals of the layout engines, or is it 
simply impossible?

The scores I need to set are by a colleague who is a contemporary composer who 
uses a strict 3cm = 1 second metric, and I am unable to engrave the works (with 
any known tool). It seems frustrating to be defeated by a composer with a 
pencil and a ruler.

Andrew


> On 8 Dec 2014, at 20:53, Gerjan Piksen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> While I wan’t my time signature to stay the same I would like to manually set 
> the length of a measure.