Easy selecting note spacing

normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\normal

This defines an elementary spacing of normalshapemediumseries10pt. If you say normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\large^2.2 the elementary spacing ( normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\elemskip) is set to normalshapemediumseries 12pt. Once this is done, you can select multiples of this value to select specific note spacing by initiating your note column with normalshapemediumseries\ notes (spacing normalshapemediumseries\elemskip), normalshapemediumseries\Notes (spacing normalshapemediumseries 1.4normalshapemediumseries\elemskip), etc.

The is also a macro named normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\etroit which yields narrower^2.3 spacings but not increasing in the same way.

In practice, the choice of the macro normalshapemediumseries\notes, normalshapemediumseries\ Notes, normalshapemediumseries\NOtes, etc., to initiate of column of notes sets an internal dimension register, named normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\noteskip to the given multiple of normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\elemskip. Thus, each spacing note ( normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\qu, normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\qh, normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\hl, etc.) will be followed by a spacing of normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\noteskip. Then, the advantage of the definition of normalshapemediumseries\ elemskip is that, whenever it is changed, all subsequent normalshapemediumseries\noteskips will be updated proportionally so that a simple change of normalshapemediumseries\elemskip can expand or shrink all consecutive note spacings as a whole.

If these values of normalshapemediumseries\elemskip are not fit to your needs, you can also say

normalshapemediumseries normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\normal normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\elemskip=15pt

or revert to the basic note introducing sequence:

normalshapemediumseries normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\vnotes q normalshapemediumseries\elemskip note specifications normalshapemediumseries\enotes

where q is a positive integer or decimal number.

Of course, if you are sufficiently skilled with TEX, you can also compute normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\elemskip according to the number of bars you want in a line and the number of notes in each bar.

However, you may also prefer to ask MusicTEX to compute the size of normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\elemskip from the current page width ( normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\hsize) after assuming a constant number of bars of a constant number of beats within each line^2.4. In this case, you have better use the normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\autolines macro, which is described below (see: ``Line and page breaking'').