Re: Note spacing

[Maurizio Tomasi]

> > I am using Lilypond 1.5.64, and I need to change the average distance
> > between consecutive notes in a score. The score I am typesetting takes 45
> > pages (!), but Lily places often only 2 or 3 widely spaced bars per line.
> > I would like to force Lily to shrink a bit the whole thing to get 4 or 5
> > bars per line.
>
> If you think that Lilypond gives too wide spacing, please send
> an example to the list so the problem can be solved.
> However, if you want to tweak the default layout yourself,
> you could try some different options:
>
> - Simply use a smaller size: \include "paper16.ly"
> - Try to tweak some of the properties of the SpacingSpanner,
>   see the on-line documentation of the Lilypond internals.
> - Change the default linewidth.

Thank you for the tips, Mats. I already use "paper16.ly" and the line
width seems to be ok, so I will try modify some SpacingSpanner properties.
I shall send you tomorrow a PNG image containing an example.

Maurizio