Re: struggling to get horizontal space on the page exactly proportional to time

[Sam Roberts]

> That's similar to demanding that poetry has to have multiple lines with
> syllables in the same metric position of different verses horizontally
> aligned.  That would make actually reading the poem harder, not easier.
> In a similar way, interfering with the natural flow of music symbols in
> a manner as rigid as that would make reading music harder.
>
> Text processing programs don't really offer to do that kind of
> alignment of poems, and LilyPond doesn't reall offer to do that reliably
> with music.

I'd have found learning iambic pentameter easier if poems were aligned
;-), but I take your point, this isn't how people typeset music.

The strict-note-spacing got me as close I need.

Fwiw, attached is the music from my guitar book, and the version I
typeset with lilypond. Comparing the two might clarify why I'm trying
to do something so untraditional.

I've been learning greensleeves for 6 weeks, and its only after
resetting it that I realized the piece has an A/B/A/B line structure,
with the two A lines having only tiny variations.

Probably people with any musicality or who can hum the tune from
memory (not me!), would know this intuitively.

Thanks for all your help,
Sam

greensleaves.pdf
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