2008/7/30 Joseph Haig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/7/29 Dominic Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Okay, then it breaks already after the fourth note ... this doesn´t help >> much. >> Now I added some more \noBreak commands after other notes and now it >> fits into one line. >> That´s not what I would call a "clean solution" ... :-/ >> > > I haven't played with chant in lilypond for a while, but I think I > remember that it still uses the default time signature (4/4) and note > length (crochet or quarter-note) even though these don't mean anything > in this notation. What you are seeing is the line being broken at the > (unprinted) bar lines, which occur every 4 crochet notes. (Note that > the podatus on 'un-' of 'unheil' is two notes.)
> An even more > unfortunate side effect of this is that if you have long melimata the > spacing gets messed up, because lilypond allocates a certain amount of > space for each neume even though they are clustered together. You can > see this in your example, where the notes above 'unheil' have too much > space between them. That´s really ugly and I hope to find a way to solve it. Without that problem the chant results are considerable - maybe because I don´t have difficult constructs to typeset. Unaesthetic source code is annoying, but unaesthetic output is unacceptable ... > > I found that there was no real 'clean solution'. I tended to have a > lot of \bar "" commands after various notes more or less around the > place where I expected line breaks to occur. Unfortunately, I don't > think chant is very high on the list of priorities with the developers > and, to be fair, there probably isn't really a compelling reason why > it should be. I did have a look at it once but I don't know enough > about scheme, python or chant notation to be able to get very far. You´re right with the default time signature working inside. I tried to fight it with the same weapons: I´ve set \time 1/4 at the beginning and so I don´t have to type many times \bar "" and this really works well! Dominic _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user