Re: suspended whole notes - possibly a defect, please give your opinions

[Keith OHara]

Janek Warchoł <lemniskata.bernoullego <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Good example!  It reminded me that usually there are less suspended
> notes in a chord than normal ones (i.e. in your example the third pair
> consists of chords with two normal notes and one suspended).  Because
> of that it is indeed better not to "align horizontally" such note
> columns (in other words, last two measures from attached example are
> typeset correctly indeed).

Yes, it is good that Lilypond aligns horizontally the main note columns, 
as opposed to the suspended note-heads.  

Maybe you would like to have the suspended whole-note-heads always to the 
right of the main note column.  Right now, LilyPond, suspends a whole-note
head on the same side as she would suspend it in a stemmed chord of the 
same pitches.  This is consistent, but maybe this particular consistency is 
not helpful to the reader.

> However, i'm unsure about the unequal measure length in that example.

Lilypond tries to keep consistent space from the /main/ column of note heads 
to the end of the measure.  The extra space given to a suspended note-head 
causes the measure to be longer; so the patch I proposed for issue 1779 makes 
these measures equal length.