On 1 oct. 2013, at 13:59, LaurenH <l.v.had...@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > I'm looking for a music writing program that will allow me to precisely > control horizontal spacing for use in a psychology sight-reading study. > Though I've found information on how to pad accidentals etc I was wondering > if someone could help with a few more detailed horizontal spacing questions: > > (1) I need to be able to choose how wide a bar is (e.g. 3cm, or 1/8 the > total page-width), and make each system's spacing the same. I'd need this > width to be set regardless of what is in the bar. Is this possible? > > (2) I additionally need to define the distances between notes (i.e. ratio of > 2 for each doubled duration) and I need this to be completely unaffected by > accidentals- i.e I want no padding around accidentals. Is this possible? > > I'd really appreciate someone letting me know whether Lilypond would be an > appropriate program to use for my study. Thanks, Lauren >
LilyPond can probably do (2) via its proportional notation commands. (1) is possible if you make the line skip at each bar. Otherwise, you'd have to make changes to the C++ code used to compile the LilyPond executable. The changes wouldn't be complicated but would require working knowledge of C++. Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
