Re: Strict note spacing

[Peter Crighton]

So, as I don’t find any other possibility … is it possible to know the staff-space unit values of the width of any given measure and the horizontal positions of the notes therein (or their distance to the preceding or following bar line)?

Then I could probably write a function to automatically set the X-offset for every NoteColumn or ChordName to get the desired consistent output.

Thanks,

Peter

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Peter Crighton | Musician & Music Engraver based in Mainz, Germany
http://www.petercrighton.de

2017-04-26 23:19 GMT+02:00 Peter Crighton <address@hidden>:

Hello all,

I am still working on a type of lead sheet that only shows chord symbols.

For the bars to align well, I need to set SpacingSpanner.strict-note-spacing to true (set it to false to see what I mean), but that has the unwanted effect of the last chord symbol in a bar having less space than the others. So, of course with strict-note-spacing the distance from chord to chord is the same, regardless of there being a bar line in-between or not. But I need the distance from a chord to a bar line to be the same as from a chord to the next chord.

Is there any way to get that result?

\version "2.19.59"

<<

  \new ChordNames \chordmode {

    \repeat unfold 3 {

      a4 a a a

    } \break

    \repeat unfold 6 {

      a4 a a a

    }

  }

>>

\layout {

  \context {

    \ChordNames

    \consists "Bar_engraver"

    \override BarLine.bar-extent = #'(-2 . 2)

    \override ChordName.Y-offset = #-0.9

  }

  \context {

    \Score

    \remove "Bar_number_engraver"

    \override SpacingSpanner.strict-note-spacing = ##t

  }

}

\paper {

  indent = 0

}

Thanks,

Peter

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Peter Crighton | Musician & Music Engraver based in Mainz, Germany
http://www.petercrighton.de