I prefer some degree of spacing, otherwise notes crossing strings in a phrase can appear to be stacked rather than linear. I currently use both Wayne's TAB and Christoph Dalitz's abctab2ps on my Mac. They are not all GUI and user friendly, but they offer variable horizontal spacing: TAB by putting as many or as few notes on a line as you choose; and abctab2ps by several methods, including a variable scale which is very useful.
Leonard Williams On 2/7/05 6:54 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I may have posed this question to the list in the past, but perhaps it is time > to > do so again. > > My admitedly limited survey of historical printed sources shows a diferent > approach to horizontal spacing from that favored in modern staff notation. > > In modern staff notation notes are spaced horizontally in a manner intended to > improve the musicians perception of the time they occupy. This is not > strictly > done, long notes are not given full width. Historically it seems that less > concern was made for legibility and more for cramming in all the notes that > fit. > Of course, all spacing rules get de-fenestrated when text must be underlayed; > so, > this question is only pertinant for instrumental editions. > > My own preference is for historical, tight, unspaced setting; but, how say the > rest of you? to space, or not to space... > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
