I want to *force* spacing

2009-12-18 Thread Fredrik Carlén
Hi! I want to make a sheet that has the approximate look of the (among dummers) classic Stick Control by G.L. Stone. This book has you practising combinations of right hand strokes and left hand strokes, like so: RLRR LRLL. My problem is that if I just write out the row of combinations and notes

Re: I want to *force* spacing

2009-12-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2009/12/18 Fredrik Carlén norderg...@gmail.com: (without \skip) | RLRRLRLL | (with skip) |RLRR LRL|L . SkipMusic and SkipEvent are fillers that take up duration as per the page http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.9/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/SkipMusic#SkipMusic . I suppose I'd like a filler

Re: I want to *force* spacing

2009-12-18 Thread Robin Bannister
I suppose I'd like a filler that does *not* take up duration You can use a breath mark for this http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Curves#Breath-marks and then make it blank by overriding #'text or #'transparent. gap = { \once \override BreathingSign #'text = %