Re: Bars

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Juergen Reuter <address@hidden> writes:

> Well, to be honest, I am not very lucky yet...

Wow, do you really need this much code?  Will look at it later.

Ok, I don't have much time (we're celebrating Queens day today), but
as a quick hack, you might try to have the bar-lines generated, but
make them very small.  In this example they're still big, so that you
see what I mean, but if you make them 0.1 high, they're just as high as
the middle staffline...

\score {
 \notes \relative c' \context StaffGroup = groupie <
  \context Staff = SA { c1 c1 c1}
  \context Lyrics = LA \lyrics <
   { bla1 die bla }
  >
  \context Staff = SB { a1 a1 a1}
  \context Lyrics = LB \lyrics <
   { bla1 die bla }
   { foo bar foo }
  >
  \context Staff = SC { f1 f1 f1}
  \context Lyrics = LC \lyrics <
   { bla1 die bla }
   { foo bar foo }
   { foo bar foo }
  >
  \context Staff = SD { d1 d1 d1}
  \context Lyrics = LD \lyrics <
   { bla1 die bla }
   { foo bar foo }
   { foo bar foo }
   { foo bar foo }
  >
 >
 \paper {
  \translator {
    \StaffContext
    whichBar = #"|."
    BarLine \override #'bar-size = #1
  }
}

> And, finally, one other thing: PLEASE, PLEASE fix ly2dvi so that it
> aborts with an error message, if lilypond segfaults.  It cost me at
> least one hour to track down a silly seg fault, because lily crashed,
> but the output on the screen looked as if lily had exited normally,
> followed by a successful LaTeX run on lily's (due to the crash)
> incomplete output.

That's easy, you could have done that yourself :-)  It seems that err
codes returned by os.system are *not* shifted left one byte, as I
thought they always were -- will have to look into this.

Greetings,
Jan.

--- scripts/ly2dvi.py~  Sun Apr 29 13:57:29 2001
+++ scripts/ly2dvi.py   Mon Apr 30 12:10:01 2001
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
                cmd = "sh -c \'%s\'" % cmd
        if verbose_p:
                progress (_ ("Invoking `%s\'") % cmd)
-       st = os.system (cmd) >> 8
+       st = os.system (cmd)
        if st:
                name = re.match ('[ \t]*([^ \t]*)', cmd).group (1)
                msg = name + ': ' + _ ("command exited with value %d") % st

-- 
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org