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From: Robert Blackstone <address@hidden>
To: lilypond-user <address@hidden>
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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 08:59:30 +0100
Subject: Horizontal shifting of chordsHi All,I have been transcribing a piano piece in \time 4/2, that ends with a chord \breve. The penultimate bar ends with the same chord half note.What LilyPond does here I find rather ugly : both chords need more space, and I would like to center the breve and increase the distance between the penultimate chord and the bar line.The available space would be would be more than sufficient.This is what I want:This is what I get:I have not been able to get what I want. \override NoteColumn.force-hshift = #x (some value) does nothing. I have tried to cheat a bit by surreptitiously changing the "time" of the last 2 bars from 4/2 to 6/2 and add a hidden whole note to the end of the penultimate bar and to the beginnig of te final bar but nothing changes.Has anybody a suggestion or advice?Thanks in advance.Best regards,Robert Blackstone
I saw you got lots of answers that approached this from a space tweaking perspective.
I wanted to offer another approach, which is to insert a spacer rest before your final chord and then scale the chord as appropriate. You can pick the duration of rest that suits your taste.
This has the slight benefit, as compared to tweaking specific horizontal values, that it will scale if you change page layouts, when the measure takes up different amounts of space.
It has the downside that, if you are also doing midi output, you would need to use tags to differentiate content for layout and midi blocks.
\layout {
line-width = 5\in
ragged-right = ##f
}
{
c''4 4 4 4 | s32 c''1*31/32 \bar "|."
}
{
c''4 4 4 4 | s16 c''1*15/16 \bar "|."
}
{
c''4 4 4 4 | s8 c''1*7/8 \bar "|."
}
{
c''4 4 4 4 | s4 c''1*3/4 \bar "|."
}
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