Re: bar line placing question

[Xavier Scheuer]

On 16 April 2011 10:55, Mark Wirdnam <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Lilypond is absolutely fantastic, but my knowledge of musical notation
> might be a bit lacking. In the example below I don't understand how
> lilypond chooses to place the bar lines, which means the result is not
> what I intended.
>
> I'm using version 2.12.3-1 on the mac.
>
> To the best of my knowledge bar 6, which consists only of rests, is
> only 14 16ths long. As a consequence "here" is not at the beginning of
> bar 7 like I wanted, and again "should" should be the beginning of bar
> 8. finally bar 9 appears to consist of 18 16ths.
>
> Probably I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know what. So if
> somebody is willing to help me, that would be so nice!

The mistake is in bar 1 actually.
You have nine 8th in this measure instead of eight.
I suppose it should be like in bar 5, so  gis8  instead of  gis4 :

  b8. gis8. gis8( gis2)

Then everything should be fine.

It is recommended to input your "ly" text file with one measure per
line, and you can use more barchecks  '|' .

Cheers,
Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>