Re: `fitting music onto fewer pages'

[Erik Sandberg]

On Friday 23 June 2006 06:47, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > >       \override SpacingSpanner
> > >                 #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 15)
> >
> > I'm happy to add this... but what does #(ly:make-moment 1 15) do?
>
> It seems that this is simply handled as a rational number.
>
> > I thought that make-moment X Y created a duration of X Y-notes (ie 5
> > 4 would create a duration of length 5 quarter notes).  I don't think
> > we have any 15th notes... or was that just a typo for 16?
>
> No, it wasn't.  LilyPond doesn't care whether such a note actually
> exists (at least this is the impression I get since LilyPond doesn't
> produce any warnings); it uses the specified moment as a factor to
> control the global spacing.

1/15 moments do exist in lilypond, try e.g. \times 16/15 {c16}

-- 
Erik