Re: Meterless typesetting help

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2010-09-06 15:50, Xavier Scheuer wrote:
> On 6 September 2010 15:29, Richie Gress<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > I am trying to engrave music that has no meter; this is what I need
> > help doing:
>
> > I need to specify where I want the barlines to go.
>
> Use  \cadenzaOn  and explicit bar lines with  \bar "|" .
> You'll probably also need  \bar ""  to permit line breaks.  [...]
>
> > I need to have some staves disappear when they only have rests in them,
> > and then reappear later when they begin to have music again.
>
> That's the purpose of  \RemoveEmptyStaffContext  (isn't the right name
> \RemoveEmptyStaves now?).

AFAICS, for \RemoveEmptyStaffContext to work, you have to use 
MultiMeasureRests.  Do these work together with cadenzas?  The last time 
I checked (just two minor versions ago) I ran into trouble, both with 
score timing and the alignment of the MMR grob in the "measure"/cadenza.
Is there something like a "FullCadenzaRest", centered in a cadenza, and 
possibly split if the cadenza is broken into several lines?  If no, 
please consider this as a possible enhancement request... ;-)

In the meantime, if \cadenzaOn causes you trouble, try the following: 
Use \time 4/4 with \layout { \context { \Staff \remove 
Time_signature_engraver } } or \layout { \context { \Staff \override 
TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f } }, without \cadenzaOn, and use 
\scaleDurations to fit the music of each "measure" into 4/4:
{ c'4 c4 c2 c8 c2 } (of length 13/8) will be one "measure" with 
\scaleDurations #'(8 . 13) { c'4 c4 c2 c8 c2 }.


Cheers,
Alexander