Re: MultiMeasureRest symbol spacing

[David Nalesnik]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:27 AM, David Nalesnik
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:20 AM, David Nalesnik
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hmmm....
>>
>> I'm having misgivings about the idea of fixed space between symbols.
>>
>> Looking at several Breitkopf & Härtel parts, I see rests spaced to
>> fill available space.  Though, because spacing is compact, we never
>> see the awful behavior Jan-Peter's example reveals.
>>
>> http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.2,_Op.73_(Brahms,_Johannes)#Parts
>> http://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.1,_Op.21_(Beethoven,_Ludwig_van)#Parts
>>
>> Instead of having fixed spacing between symbols, would it be better to
>> have a limit on how much a rest can be stretched?  This would be
>> expressed in staff-spaces (like the current minimum which is
>> hard-coded as 1 staff-space).
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> Another observation from the parts cited above:
>>
>> LilyPond creates an 8-bar church rest (rests.M3) which is a composite
>> of 2 four-bar symbols (rests.M2): see
>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/the-feta-font#rest-glyphs
>>  The cited parts do use a composite glyph, rather two normally spaces
>> 4-bar symbols.:
>
> Oh my. "The cited parts don't use a composite glyph, rather two
> normally spaced 4-bar symbols."
>
>>
>> In the following, we get an 8-bar symbol followed by a whole rest.
>> Should there be at least an option to have this expressed as three
>> equally-spaced symbols: 4 + 4 + 1?
>>
>> \version "2.19.53"
>>
>> {
>>   \compressFullBarRests
>>   R1*9
>> }

This can be done with

\override Staff.MultiMeasureRest.usable-duration-logs = #'(-2 -1 0)

So no matter!