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Re: line breaks


From: Paul Scott
Subject: Re: line breaks
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:36:00 -0700
User-agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017)

Graham Percival wrote:


On 15-Mar-06, at 10:31 AM, Paul Scott wrote:

Graham Percival wrote:

This is exactly what the bar line check does! See 6.2.4 Bar check! c'4 c c c | c c c c |


Certainly but I for one don't put | at the end of every bar. I normally only use | when I have a problem.


Benjamin Britten occasionally used double meters -- say, a piece that changes between 3/4 and 2/4 on every single bar. These are notated with a 3/4 2/4 at the beginning of the piece, but nothing in the rest of the piece. We can do this in lilypond via other means.


I haven't done this yet but the number of beats per bar is still well defined. Is this documented somewhere?


Oh, it's still defined.  I was thinking of having a
global = {
\time 3/4 \partial 128 s128 \time 2/4 \partial 128 s128
\override whatever #'hide Time-signature
\repeat unfold 40 { \time 3/4 s2. \time 2/4 s2 }
}

Looks simple enough. I don't remember ever seeing the need for the partials.


Other than those examples, I don't think there are any musical cases where you can have more beats in the bar than the time signature indicates.


So it could be reasonable to give an error when the number of beats/bar is exceeded (when not in a cadenza). I would guess the present bar line logic already presents the condition where the error message could be added. I have generated many pages of music without this feature using | when I need it but I can imagine it might help some users.


What's wrong with adding a | every so often to your code?

That's exactly what I do. It would still seem that the wrong number of beats/bar should be an error. OTOH Orm is suggesting that there are valid exceptions.

Paul





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