Re: GDP: addition for Rhythms?

[Till Rettig]

Mats Bengtsson schrieb:
> till wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just read a bit further in the GDP and saw this example about 
> > polymetric
> > music where each note has still the same duration, so the barlines 
> > won't be
> > on the same vertical position. Because Lilypond can't count the bars
> > anymore, it won't put bar numbers by default. This has to be done a 
> > similar
> > way by removing the Bar_number_engraver from the score and putting it 
> > into
> > the staves.
> >   
> Honestly, what would the purpose be of such bar numbers? For rehearsals,
> such bar numbers are useless, since they're different for each part, 
> so you
> would need to rely on rehearsal marks instead.
I guess you are right. For one score I thought of using only the bar 
numbers of the upper system, but I gave up and notated everything 
conventionally, marking the different bars with accents.
> Also, if you try to do the suggested change, you will notice that the 
> resulting bar
> numbers collide with the left edge bracket/brace/bar line unless you 
> move them
> further to the left.
Yes, but this seems so be also the case with normal numbers? Or is is 
solved with 2.11?
> What I thought migh make sense, would be to remove the bar number 
> engraver
> > from the Score context, but it turns out that no bar numbers are typeset 
> anyway
> (probably since the bar numbering information isn't available at the 
> Score level),
> so it's not necessary neither.
Yes, that's true, I guess, it is just decided that nothing should be 
printed in case that there is no common numbering.


Greetings
Till
>    /Mats