On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Abraham Lee <tisi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:39 AM, James Harkins <jamshar...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Something I've been wondering about for awhile... lilypond.org boasts of
> "optical spacing" for notes with alternating up and down stems, but it
> seems this feature has been lost somewhere (or disabled by default). In
> this example, it's quite plain to my eyes that the stems are not equally
> spaced within the bars. \version "2.18.2" \relative c'' { e4 c, f' d, g' e,
> a' f, } Which is correct -- the website, or LP's behavior? hjh
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> James,
>
> I would have to disagree with you. I think the notes look very nicely
> spaced. I think you are misunderstanding what "optical spacing" implies. It
> doesn't mean that the stems will be placed equidistant from each other.
> That would look awful because of how far that would push the noteheads out
> of place!
>
Equally spaced stems do look nice with groupings that change staff
constantly, however. I remember that SCORE had a feature that enabled
this. I've often thought that LilyPond should have this option, but
haven't studied the problem enough to know how it could be implemented.
--David
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