Re: Incipits

[Robert Memering]

Am Montag, 11. Februar 2008 16:36 schrieb Juergen Reuter:
> IIRC, the spacing engine maintains a variable that keeps track of shortest
> available duration in a peace in computes the ideal distance of larger
> note values in a logarithmic scale based on the shortest duration.  Maybe
> this computation needs to be changed for the incipit (and only there!) to
> get tighter spacing in the incipit.

IMO, horizontal spacing in incipits should be completely
"turned off", i.e. uniform (and rather tight) spacing
regardless of note values, as seen in the renaissance
manuscripts.

Robert


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