Re: is \partial counted as a bar?

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 01:32:41AM +0800, Seng Hin Yew wrote:
>    I'm having a problem that lilypond will exclude the \partial bar in bar
>    counting. This \partial i meant was the first bar of a score. How to make
>    LP calculate it as a first bar?

This is not typical notation, but if you want to do that, the
simplest way would be to put:
  \set Score.BarNumber = #2
at the beginning of your piece.

(I'm not 100% about the exact syntax, nor whether you want to
start at bar 1 or bar 2, but that's the basic idea)

Cheers,
- Graham