Re: Creating a comparison of several variants of unmettered chant

[Karl Hammar]

Jiri Zurek:
...
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p27515617/comparison.jpg 
...
> The problem is how to vertically align the notes in the desired way, i.e.
> how to match vertically the common melodic patterns? Are there tools in
> lilypond to achieve the result in a way which is humanly manageable?

Can't you use scaled durations [1], something like:

\score {
  <<
    \new Staff { \clef "treble_8" f4\( e f d\) ... }
    ...
    \new Staff { \clef "treble_8" f4\( e*3 f d\) ... }
  >>
}

Regards,
/Karl

[1] 
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Writing-rhythms#Scaling-durations

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