Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

[Peter Van Kranenburg]

On 1/2/11 3:55 PM, James Bailey wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Peter Van Kranenburg wrote:
>
> > On 1/2/11 3:03 PM, Sven Axelsson wrote:
> > > On 2 January 2011 14:33, Peter Van Kranenburg
> > > <address@hidden>   wrote:
> > > > Dear list,
> > > >
> > > > I'm typesetting unmetered music. My question is: what is the right (or best)
> > > > approach to do so?

> minor change since you said you needed a final barline:
> \version "2.12.3"
> \layout {
>     \context { \Score \remove Timing_translator \remove Bar_number_engraver }
>     \context { \Staff \override TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
>     }
> }
> music = {
>     \override Staff.BarLine #'stencil = ##f
>     \repeat unfold 32 { \repeat unfold 2 { a8[ a a a] } }
>     \revert Staff.BarLine #'stencil
>     \bar "|."
> }
> \score { \music \layout {} }

Thanks a lot! That looks very good indeed.
The only drawback is that automatic beaming is off. Automatic beaming is 
an advantage of having an underlying meter.

So, the trade-off is inserting \bar "" at many places or manually 
indicating all beams...

best,
Peter