Re: How to use Markup for Barnumbers?

[James Lowe]

Hello

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From: TaoCG <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:52:04 -0800
To: lilypond-user <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: How to use Markup for Barnumbers?

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>Robin Bannister wrote:
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>> You can bypass the #'text property with
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>>> replaceBN =  #(define-music-function (parser location new) (markup?)
>>>   #{\once \override Score.BarNumber #'stencil =
>>>     #(lambda (grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob $new)) #})
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>> and then say 
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>>> \replaceBN \markup \column { "17" "37"}
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>> Cheers, 
>> Robin
>> 
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>Thanks. This is exactly what I need. I only had to adjust the
>baseline-skip
>to get the numbers closer together.
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I'm more intrigued to know why you'd have bar numbers in pairs like this.

That is if they are just repeats then you are repeating bar X but if it is
a new bar then it is a new bar if you see what I mean.

What kind of music requires this?

James


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