Re: Displaying the first bar number

[Daniel Johnson]

Nope.  Here's my test.ly:

\version "2.6.3"

{
    \set Score.currentBarNumber = #15
    \repeat unfold 5 c'1 \break
    \repeat unfold 5 c'1
}

On the 2nd line, I get the bar number (20) but not on the first line.

--Daniel

Fairchild wrote:

>Daniel -
>
>Try this:
>
>\version "2.4.6"
>{ \set Score.currentBarNumber = #123
>a'1 a' a' }
>
>                            - Bruce
>
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>[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of
>Daniel Johnson
>Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 3:38 PM
>To: Lilypond User
>Subject: Displaying the first bar number
>
>
>Dear list,
>
>Because I am typesetting a fragment of a larger work, I would like to
>display the bar number on the first line.  By default Lilypond does not do
>so, but begins displaying it on line 2.  In ly/engraver-init.ly, we
>encounter the following line:
>    barNumberVisibility = #default-bar-number-visibility
>and in scm/output-lib.scm we see this:
>    (define-public (default-bar-number-visibility barnum) (> barnum 1)) So,
>it seemed like I should be able to do the following:
>    \set Score.barNumberVisibility = ##t
>but this has no effect.  I also tried this:
>    #(define-public (default-bar-number-visibility barnum) (#t)) but, as
>expected, it didn't work either.
>
>If anyone can shed light on this, I'll gladly write up a blurb on it for
>inclusion in the manual.  (I searched and didn't find anything there, so
>please forgive if it's there and I missed it.)  I am using version 2.6.3 on
>Linux.
>
>--Daniel
>
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