Greetings all,
I have asked this question on the list
in the past, but no solution seems to be available. The topic is
fixed width measures. I have contemporary music that has lots of
complex tuplets within tuplets and rapidly varying time
signatures (New Complexity School). The composer I am working
with draws all his scores by hand, and uses a fixed measure
width notation to help the performer understand the very complex
rhythms, with a fixed physical measure length corresponding to a
specific fixed interval of time. Actually, several composers do
this.
I have tried everything to do with
proportional notation and new spacing sections but I can’t seem
to succeed. Is there any way to instruct lilypond to use a fixed
length, absolute size measure?
I see that others have wanted this
capability for fixed width measures for chord charts, overriding
the lovely and subtle way that lilypond has of moving the bar
lines on the page around a little for readability and
aesthetics.
I am attaching the smallest most
simplified snippet I can make that shows unequal measures. If
anybody can make something like this have fixed width measures,
let me know!
I am aware that this goes entirely
against classical engraving principles, and all of lilypond’s
aesthetic architecture, but it is 2015 now! Does this require
internal code hacking of the layout engine somewhere deep down
below the user level? It’s frustrating to be defeated by a man
with a pencil who can simply rule lines! :-)
Andrew
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