Re: cadenza causes barcheck failure?

[Mats Bengtsson]

chip wrote:
> why would a
>
>     \cadenzaOn
>     c16^"Solo Free Time" d ef f g2. as4 gs g32 gs g8~ g1 g4 f16 ef d f 
> d ef c4 ef8 c16 d g,1 \bar "" c16 d ef f g2 g \glissando g' g16 f ef d 
> c b a g f e d c4 b2 e b16 e b1 \bar "||"
>     \cadenzaOff
>
> cause a bar check failure?
It doesn't, at least not by itself! You can only get bar check failures 
if you have bar checks, i.e. if you have inserted a | where you expect 
the bar line to happen. I tried to turn your incomplete example into 
something that can be ran directly in LilyPond, like
\version "2.12.0"
\include "english.ly"
\relative c'{
c1 |
   \cadenzaOn
   c16^"Solo Free Time" d ef f g2. as4 gs g32 gs g8~ g1 g4 f16 ef d f d 
ef c4 ef8 c16 d g,1 \bar "" c16 d ef f g2 g \glissando g' g16 f ef d c b 
a g f e d c4 b2 e b16 e b1 \bar "||"
   \cadenzaOff
c1 |
}
and I don't see any bar check failures. It's much much easier to provide 
relevant answers to a question like this if you include a complete (but 
small) example of an .ly file that illustrates your problem.

   /Mats


> I've removed the \bar "" bits, but then the long line is placed on one 
> staff and is cut off the page, and still causes a bar check failure.
> I've also replace the \bar "" with \break, but that doesn't work at all.
>
> From the manual -
>
>
>         Unmetered music
>
>
>         Bar lines and bar numbers are calculated automatically. For
>         unmetered music (some cadenzas, for example), this is not
>         desirable. To turn off automatic calculation of bar lines and
>         bar numbers, use the command |\cadenzaOn|, and use
>         |\cadenzaOff| to turn them on again. 
>
> Apparently this doesn't work as described? This is causing me a big 
> hassle. Surely there is a fix for this?
>
> Regards,
> chip
>
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