Re: Uniform, "graph-paper" spacing?

[joe ferguson]

Sounds like what is wanted is a sort of a "snap-to-grid" feature, where 
the grid is a one-dimension, uniform time (metronome time) sequence.  
"Snap-to-grid" is a pretty common feature in graphic design systems, so 
there ought to be some pretty good approaches to the problem in the 
literature.

Trevor Baca wrote:

> Hello Lily users,
>
> Is it possible to ensure all measures exactly the same width
> throughout a piece, *without the hidden voice workaround*?
>
> What I'm finding is that the hidden voice workaround doesn't *exactly*
> get it, especially at small staff sizes, with a large number of
> measures per page, with many tuplets; with the hidden voice, the first
> measure on the line, for example, tends to assume more space than the
> following measures on the line.
>
> And, yes, of course classical engraving standards abhor this type of
> "graph-paper" spacing (see list thread between Michael Lakes and Mats
> Bengstsson for a good discussion), but please trust me that the
> musical context here is quite different: when you get past a certain
> number of differently rational rhythms (tuplets) across many, many
> instruments what you want is *exactly* this type of regularity in the
> horizontal axis.
>
> So, is there a direct way to ensure exactly even measure length, on a
> system-wide or score-wide basis?
>
> Trevor.
>
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