Re: BarLine spacing

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2005 08:36:11 +0200
> pascal lawrynowicz <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> > Yes I have a special purpose for it.
> > I write a lot of material for my drums lessons (it's a reason I
> > switch to Linux and Lilypond). And for child it's better to
> > understand rhythm if each bar is evenly written. So each bar length
> > (distance) means same beats and subdivisions inside. It's very
> > visual.
>
>
> Another purpose would be to notate modern music in absolute time (where
> physical distance is relative to time), as often seen in works of
> members of the "spectral music" tradition, and others...

That's proportional notation, which Lily doesn't do yet. It would be 
quite a big project to  do, but lots of new music aficionados would be 
thrilled with it.

However, maybe the original poster would also be interested in Grid lines?

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#grid-lines.ly

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