Hello, is there someone familiar with the code for the incipit in http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=582 ? The incpits work wonderfully - until I try to put in many pauses. Then the spacing is just awful, all the pauses are far away from each other. You can actually see this in the snippet where the few pauses are far far away. Now imagine it with 12 longa pauses! I was not able to find a suitable solution. How do I 'compress' the music? I tried using base-shortest-duration but it does not seem to affect anything in the incipit. Out of luck (and because I had to finish a transcription) The only workaround I found was replacing a notehead stencil with custom postscript to produce the pauses and space everything using spacer rests:
tenorGloriaPause = #(ly:make-stencil (list 'embedded-ps "gsave 0.3 setlinewidth currentpoint translate newpath 1 0 moveto 0 -2 rlineto 1 0 rmoveto 0 2 rlineto 1 1 rmoveto 0 -2 rlineto 1 0 rmoveto 0 2 rlineto 1 1 rmoveto 0 -2 rlineto 1 0 rmoveto 0 2 rlineto 1 -1 rmoveto 0 -2 rlineto 1 0 rmoveto 0 2 rlineto 1 -1 rmoveto 0 -2 rlineto 1 0 rmoveto 0 2 rlineto 1 1 rmoveto 0 -2 rlineto 1 0 rmoveto 0 2 rlineto stroke grestore" ) (cons 0 10) (cons 0 0)) and then: \once \override NoteHead #'stencil = \tenorGloriaPause c'\longa s1*19 e'\longa The result is beautiful but... this ought to be the least efficient way of making an incipit! rodolfo _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user