Re: Inital barnumber?

[Daniel Johnson]

Graham Percival wrote:
> On 23-May-06, at 2:29 PM, Christian Conkle wrote:
>
> > I'm working on what the Lilypond docs so nicely term a "musicological 
> > document" with lilypond-book excerpts from a Bach fugue. (fis minor 
> > from WTCI) I'm using \set Score.currentBarNumber to keep the bar 
> > numbering correct, and it would be nice to have Lilypond put a bar 
> > number at the beginning of the excerpt.  Is this possible?
>
> I believe that this _is_ possible, but it is much more difficult than 
> it should be.  The docs say that
> barNumberVisibility (procedure)
>     Procedure that takes an int and returns whether the corresponding 
> bar number should be printed
>
> so if you wrote a procedure to return #t if the currentBarNumber was 
> 1, it should work.  I'm not certain how to go about writing such a 
> procedure, though.
>
> I sent this email to -devel as well, as a feature request for a simple 
> property (printFirstBarNumber ?) which does this.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
See this message:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-09/msg00662.html

(This applied to the 2.7 codebase; I hope it still works.)