Re: How to get more measures on one line?

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2019-06-15 at 14:43 -0700, Aaron Hill wrote:
> On 2019-06-15 2:20 pm, Mia Heaton wrote:
> > So i'm trying to write out some music, and everything is spaced way
> > too far apart, each line is being occupied by a single measure and
> > I'm
> > not sure how to condense it more to fit multiple measures on a
> > line.
> > I'm using Frescobaldi to write Lilypond, and I used the built in
> > score
> > wizard to create the document I'm working in. I haven't changed any
> > other settings, only things there are what the wizard did for me
> > and
> > the music I inputted. Anybody know how to fix this? I'm definitely
> > not
> > smart when it comes to the technical aspects of Lilypond so simple
> > explanations are appreciated.
> 
> Without a minimal working example [1], it will be difficult to
> provide 
> any specific advice.
> 
> Try looking at the documentation regarding horizontal spacing [2] in
> the 
> event that note spacing is what is preventing LilyPond from fitting 
> multiple measures on a line.  But if your music is dense enough,

I think what Aaron may be meaning here is "if your music has lots of
short duration notes on many of the beats in a bar". Another thing to
contemplate in this case is allowing line breaks mid-bar. \bar "" will
allow LilyPond to break the line during a bar.
HTH
Richard

>  you may 
> need to adjust the line width on the page and/or the global staff
> size 
> to be able to fit more content.
> 
> [1]: http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html
> [2]: 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/changing-horizon
> tal-spacing
> 
> 
> -- Aaron Hill
> 
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