Re: How to adjust the space between notes?

[Nick Payne]

On 21/02/10 06:15, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Antheo,
>
>    
> > Yes a short sample would be nice but as it is a layout question it does not
> > makes sense to shorten the code. Here is the code i wrote:
> > http://old.nabble.com/file/p27667198/commons.ly commons.ly
> > http://old.nabble.com/file/p27667198/Introduction%2B-%2BSaint%2BSaens.ly
> > Introduction+-+Saint+Saens.ly
> >      
> OK -- now I can see what's going on.  =)
>
> 1. If I'm not mistaken, you're trying to adjust not the overall spacing, but specific 
> spacing choices/proportions based on note length. It's easy to match the length of the 
> entire snippet to the desired output/example -- by tweaking common-shortest-duration -- 
> but you want (e.g.) more space left for a dotted eighth than Lilypond's default. I 
> believe this isn't controlled by "common-shortest-duration" only, but by other 
> settings — I don't know the exact details, but I imagine there's a relatively easy way to 
> set these proportions as you would like them. Maybe someone else can answer more 
> completely.
>    
I had a bit of a play with Stem #'X-extent - looks like you can increase 
the spacing on a note by changing the X-extent values, but I wasn't able 
to get the spacing to decrease:

\version "2.13.13"

wstem = #(define-music-function (parser location extent) (pair?) #{
    \once \override Staff.Stem #'X-extent = #$extent
#})

\score {
    \relative c'' {
        c4 c8 c c4 c |
        c4 c8 \wstem #'(0 . 4) c c4 c |
    }
}

Nick

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