[JW Lua] Music spacing of short hairpins with ties

[Jari Williamsson]

Jan,

I'll add tie support later on. The data structures themselves aren't 
complicated, but the creation of new tie mod data requires lots of testing.

An alternative solution can be to fill a separate "spacing" layer with 
non-printing (the hidden font style with hidden stems and beams) and 
non-playing (FCNoteEntry.Playback = false) notes.


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson


On 2014-07-08 13:08, Jan Angermüller wrote:
>
> One of the many spacing/collision problems in Finale is having hairpins on
> single notes which look very squeezed in layout, as there is no option
> in music spacing for "Minimum distance between single notes with hairpins".
> If you look at the attached screenshot, the "before"-example is what I mean.
> But there is an spacingh option "Minimum distance between notes with ties".
>
> An idea to solve this issue would be to make use of the "minimum tie distance"
> and create an "invisible" tie that is used for better hairpin spacing
> (see "after" in the screenshot). The tie is placed directly on the notehead,
> so it is not visible, but music spacing recognizes it as a tie and uses
> a wider spacing for the hairpin.
>
> A tie would affect playback, but it is unlikely to have the same pitch
> after a decrescendo/crescendo and, of course, the tie could be removed
> for final playback (with "Clear selected items->Tie alterations").
>
> Jari, could you implement the rarely used FCStartTieMods/FCEndTieMods/FCTieMods
> for this feature ?
>
> Jan Angermueller
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