Re: bar numbering howto?

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:18:57 Paul Scott wrote:
> Heikki Johannes Junes wrote:
> 
> >>Instead, what one typically wants is bar numbering at 1, 5, 9, 13, ...
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >Even more accurately, at 5, 9, 13, 17, ...
> >
> >  
> >
> *If* it matches the phrases.  I absolutely *hate* reading music numbered 
> every 5 bars which is typical of some band music especially when there 
> are multiple measure rests broken up by these unmusical divisions. 
>  IMNSHO the bar numbers or letters should match the phrases and logical 
> musical subdivisions.

Yes, except when you are still working on the piece.  Then, you
want every bar numbered.  So all the bars should be numbered by
default until the user takes out whatever numbers he wants to
remove.  DaveA