Uniform, graph-paper spacing?

2005-07-14 Thread Trevor Baca
Hello Lily users, Is it possible to ensure all measures exactly the same width throughout a piece, *without the hidden voice workaround*? What I'm finding is that the hidden voice workaround doesn't *exactly* get it, especially at small staff sizes, with a large number of measures per page, with

Re: Uniform, graph-paper spacing?

2005-07-14 Thread joe ferguson
Sounds like what is wanted is a sort of a snap-to-grid feature, where the grid is a one-dimension, uniform time (metronome time) sequence. Snap-to-grid is a pretty common feature in graphic design systems, so there ought to be some pretty good approaches to the problem in the literature.

Re: Uniform, graph-paper spacing?

2005-07-14 Thread Trevor Baca
Yes, and perhaps the implementation of such a snap-to-grid or metronomic-time or graph-paper spacing could simply be some routine, call it uniform_spacing, noticed by the Spacing_engraver and passed to the SpacingSpanner as the value of the spacing-procedure: \set SpacingSpanner