I've had complaints from people who play from my printouts, which I think are justified, that the whole rest takes up too much of the space between lines. This looks particularly bad in the attached file, where the whole rest seems to be much "larger" than the adjacent \breve rests.
#(set! point-and-click line-location) #(set! point-and-click line-location) \header { composer = "John Dowland" crossRefNumber = "1" footnotes = "\\\\(1)Rest is editorial." origin = "From The First Booke of songs or Ayres of foure parts, with Tableture for the Lute" tagline = "Lily was here 1.4.0 -- automatically converted from ABC" title = "IIII. If my complaints\\\\Bassus" } wordsdefaultVA = \lyrics { If my com- plaints could pas- sions move, _ or make love see _ where- _ in I suf- fer wrong: O love, I live and die in thee, thy griefe thy griefe in my deepe sighes still speakes: and when I hope, thou makst, thou makst, me hope in vaine. } wordsdefaultVB = \lyrics { My pas- sions were e- nough to prove, _ that my de- spaires _ had _ go- vernd mee too long. Thy wounds doe fresh- ly bleed in mee, my heart my heart for thy un- kind- nesse breakes: yet for re- dresse, thou letst, thou letst, me still com- plaine. } wordsdefaultVC = \lyrics { Can love be rich, and yet I want? _ Thou plen- ty hast, _ yet _ me _ dost scant: _ That I do live, it is thy power: If love, if love, doth make mens lives too sowre, That you that of my fall, my fall may hear- ers be } wordsdefaultVD = \lyrics { Is love my Judge,_and yet I am con- demnd? Thou made a God, _ and _ yet thy power con- temnd. That I de- sire it is thy worth: Let me, let me, not love, not live hence- forth. I was more true to love, to love, than love to me. } voicedefault = \notes { \property Staff.noAutoBeaming = ##t \property Score.breakAlignOrder = #'( Left_edge_item Span_bar Breathing_sign Staff_bar Clef_item Key_item time_signature ) \property Staff.forgetAccidentals = ##t \property Voice.NoteHead \override #'style = #'baroque \property Staff.noAutoBeaming = ##t \property Score.breakAlignOrder = #'( Left_edge_item Span_bar Breathing_sign Staff_bar Clef_item Key_item time_signature ) \property Staff.forgetAccidentals = ##t \property Voice.NoteHead \override #'style = #'baroque \property Score.defaultBarType="empty" \property Staff.TimeSignature \set #'style = #'1style \property Staff.TimeSignature \set #'style = #'1style \time 3/2 % %MIDI transpose -24 % %MIDI nobarlines \key g \dorian \clef bass \repeat volta 2 { g,2 g,2 g,2 g,1. g,2 bes,2 ees2 d2. c4 b,2 c2 a,1 g,4. a,8 bes,4 c4 d2 ees!2 d2 d2 g,1. } \repeat volta 2 { d2 d2 c2 bes,1 ees2 g2 f1 bes,1. bes,2 a,2 d2 g,2 g2. g4 f2 ees!2. e4 d1. } \repeat volta 2 { r\breve r\breve r1 ^"\large\bf \large\bf (1)" bes,2 f2 d2 g4 g,4 bes,4 c4 d2 ees2 d2 d2 g,1. } }\score{ \notes < \addlyrics \context Staff="default" { \voicedefault } \context Lyrics="default" < { \wordsdefaultVA } { \wordsdefaultVB } { \wordsdefaultVC } { \wordsdefaultVD } > > \paper { } \midi {} }
Is this user-configurable? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139