Line lengths in NR [was Petrucci-like spacing?]

[Trevor Daniels]

Mats Bengtsson wrote Monday, May 25, 2009 8:03 PM

> Henning Plumeyer wrote:
> > > \relative c'' {
> > >   \key f \major g1*1/4 bes1*1/4 a1*1/4 g1*1/4 d'1.*1/6 c4 bes4 
> > > c1*1/4
> > > }
> >
> > Hi, Carl,
> > could you explain why this works? I would have expected that 
> > g1*1/4 is
> > exactly the same as g4, but it is obviously not.
>
> It looks like a whole note but has the duration of a quarter note, 
> when LilyPond determines the spacing. If you don't want to add 
> "*1/4" for every single note, there is a command \scaleDurations 
> to apply this kind of scaling for a whole section of music. All 
> this is well described in Subsection "Scaling durations" in "1.2.1 
> Writing Rhythms" in the Notation Reference.

The lines in the html version of this section of the
Notation Reference are significantly longer than any
other, so long I have to scroll horizontally to read them.

Does anyone else see this, or is it some subtle problem
with IE?

Trevor