Hello,
I've been working on typesetting hymns, and part of our style is that we
want the systems to be full width (ragged_right is false), but we also
explicitly break systems on hymn phrase boundaries. That means that we
often have more than a typical amount of extra white space available, which
lilypond then distributes between the various objects in the system. My
problem is that I don't like the choices that lilypond is making and can't
figure out how to control it.
I've attached to clips from Abide With Me to illustrate the problem. These
are clips of the top half of one system; one with ragged_right false; and
one with ragged_right true.
It all looks good when ragged right is true - all the notes and lyrics have
nice even separation and are easy to read. When stretched to the full page
width, extra space is added, it seems, based upon the length of the notes -
so the half notes get more space than the quarter notes, and the whole note
gets more than all the rest. What I'd most prefer is that the extra white
space is distributed between all the notes more evenly. Some slight
preference based upon the length of the note is ok; but not nearly as much
as is occurring in this example.
Here are the layout overrides I'm currently using:
\layout {
#(layout-set-staff-size 18)
\context {
\Lyrics
\override LyricSpace.minimum-distance = #3
\override LyricText.font-size = #0
\override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #CENTER
\override LyricHyphen.thickness = #1
\override LyricHyphen.length = #1.0
\override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-nonstaff-spacing =
#'((basic-distance . 0)
(minimum-distance . 0)
(padding . 0.85)
(stretchability . 0))
}
\context {
\Staff
\override StaffSymbol.thickness = #1
\override NoteHead.font-size = #1
#(if MajorKey #{ \aikenHeads #} #{ \aikenHeadsMinor #})
}
\context {
\Score
\remove "Bar_number_engraver"
}
}
Thanks in advance for any guidance you can give me.
Jim
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