[Denemo-devel] Report on Copy and Paste LIlypond Directives (and Empty Measures for educational usage)

[Nils Gey]

Hi,

A report:

I made a piece consisting of 4 staffs. One soprano, one bass. The other two I 
wanted to be empty to compose further with a print out. 

Now if you leave a bar empty Denemo/Lilypond will fill in a rest. I used "\skip 
2." (its a 6/8) and this works fine, the bar is empty then. 
This leads to 2 points:

1. It would be handy to have some option to leave complete empty (even without 
rests) measures blank If you wish. Especially for composing  or educational 
practice this is usefull. Is there a lilypond option for this? Maybe it could 
be a staff property.

2. I filled two measures with the lilypond command and wanted to copy and paste 
the rest. It is not possible to copy two measures only with the ly-directive 
and then paste it to get two new empty measures with the directive. Denemo just 
pasted the directives in one measure, because there are no rests or anything 
written in between. I don't know what to say, this is not really a bug, but I 
wanted to mention that its not easily possible to copy empty measures only with 
lilypond-directives in whole pieces. You have to select every new measure per 
hand and then paste it in.

Nils