Re: horziontal spacing in chants

[Christian Masser]

Thank you very much!

That was exactly, what I was looking for! As I've only got one chant to transcribe, the time it takes to tweak every single melisma is no problem. :)

All the best

Christian

Am Do., 7. Mai 2020 um 21:39 Uhr schrieb Valentin Villenave <address@hidden>:

On 5/7/20, Christian Masser <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am currently working on my Master thesis and would like to show parts of
> gregorian chants in modern notation for comparison purposes.

Greetings, good luck for your thesis!

> Is it possible to get the note heads even closer together, so that they are
> kind of glued together? Probably someone did this before but I wasn't able
> to find it yet.

Well for once, you could use \omit rather than \hide, since with \hide
the graphical objects still take up horizontal space. Next you can
shrink the NoteHead object’s horizontal extent (rather than the
BarLine), but the results will look quite ugly quite fast,
particularly with regard to the lyrics:

%%%%

spiritus = \relative {
  \time 1/4
  \override Lyrics.LyricText.X-extent  = #'(0 . 3)
  d'4 \tuplet 3/2 { f8 a g } g a a4 g f8 e
  d4 f8 g g8 d f g a g f4 g8 a a4  s
  \tuplet 3/2 { g8 f d } e f g a g4
}

spirLyr = \lyricmode {
  Spi -- ri -- _ _ tus  _ Do -- mi -- ni  _ re -- ple -- _ vit _
  or -- _ bem _  ter -- ra -- _ rum, al -- _ _ le -- _ lu
  -- _ ia.
}
\score {
  \new Staff <<
    \new Voice = "chant" \spiritus
    \new Lyrics = "one" \lyricsto "chant" \spirLyr
  >>
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Staff
      \remove "Time_signature_engraver"
      %\override BarLine.X-extent = #'(-1 . 1)
      \omit Stem
      \omit Beam
      \omit BarLine
      \omit TupletNumber
      \override NoteHead.X-extent = #'(-0.1 . 0.1)
    }
  }

%%%%

Cheers,
-- V.
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