Re: SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration doesn't work as expected? Compressing a score horizontally

[Janek Warchoł]

2010/12/30 Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>:
> 2010/12/30 Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to compress the score in attachment horizontally, in particular
>> i want the sixteenth coloraturas to be packed more dense. I added
>> \context {
>>        \Score \override SpacingSpanner  #'base-shortest-duration =
>> #(ly:make-moment 1 4)
>> }
>> and nothing happened. Looks like i can only widen the spacing (
>> #(ly:make-moment 1 32) has an effect on the score).
>> Is it supposed to work like that?
>
> In this case you could consider decreasing
>  SpacingSpanner #'shortest-duration-space
> to a value lower than #2.0

2010/12/30 Phil Holmes <address@hidden>:
> Notation Reference section 4.5.1 points to
> \override SpacingSpanner #'shortest-duration-space = #n.n
> as controlling this.  It seems to work as expected on your score.

Thank you both!

Janek