On Tuesday, 21 March 2000, "Ulrich Windl" writes: > Hello, I have another lilypond input file. See the comments within: > Regards, > Ulrich > > % The issues with this file are: The line looks quite "squeezed" > % (all in one line), and I did not find a parameter to "add more room" > % between notes. Try: \paper { %linewidth=\linewidth - 10.0\mm; arithmetic_basicspace = 2.0 * \quartwidth ; arithmetic_multiplier = 2.0; } It *just about fits*, so another trick is to reduce the linewidth a bit. > % Secondly the tie does not work (yes, I read the docs): What is the > % recommended replacement? Where is the tie, see below? (Maybe you mean: slur, you can see just a tiny bit of it, so it's there, but too small). > melody = \notes \relative c' { > \clef violin; \key g; > \time 3/4; > \partial 4; > [g'8 b] | d4. e8 [d b] | g2 [g8 b] | d4. e8 [d b] | a2 [d,8 e] | > f4. g8 a4( | )d2 [e,8 e] | d4. e8 [g8 g] | g2 \skip 4; \bar "|."; > } Greetings, Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org