Re: proportional spacing for chords?

[Adam Spiers]

On 15 March 2017 at 18:12, David Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
> I took your source and changed two things:
> a4 → a0
> 64/256 → 1/32
> and it looks superficially ok to me.

Thanks, that was the hint I needed!

> Perhaps you just have a room problem.

Yes, I guess there are some hidden constraints on spacing around ChordNames
which were pushing the bar lines around.  It would still be good to understand
how LilyPond positions ChordNames, and which parameters could be tweaked
to affect this, so that I could get away with bigger fonts ... but
this is a good enough
solution.

> I've made limited use of
> proportional notation, very useful for certain pieces, but I
> would prefer the music to look like a proper score rather than
> have some rigorous mathematical constraint applied to the
> notes. So I've never expected the barlines in each system to
> line up exactly with the others.

Sure, but my use case is different.  The goal is not to render a proper score,
but to render something for easy comparison of the different chord sequences
used in each chorus, and for this vertical alignment is essential.
It's especially
important in order to show when Coltrane anticipates (pushes) or
postpones (pulls)
any particular change of tonality, as this forms a crucial part of the
tension and
release he controls so masterfully.