Re: Polymetric music and page breaks

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
To: "Andrea La Rose" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: Polymetric music and page breaks


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andrea La Rose" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 6:08 AM
> Subject: Polymetric music and page breaks
>
>
> > Dear Collective Wisdom,
> >
> > I posted here about a year ago about my piece. You were all very helpful 
> > and
> > I hope you can help me once again. Yes, it's the same pesky piece.
> >
> > I've entered all the parts and need to finish editing it. I can't seem to
> > get it to paginate properly. I've tried inserting \bar "" judiciously and
> > \break judiciously, but to no avail. Attached is a minimal example, which 
> > is
> > still rather large, due to having eight parts. This example does not have
> > any \bar "" or \break commands.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated!
> >
> > cheers,
> > Andrea
> > http://old.nabble.com/file/p31728865/putrefaction_test.ly
> > putrefaction_test.ly
>
> It looks to me that your problem stems from the way you are changing time 
> signatures independently in each staff.  By default, Lilypond expects 
> timing to be consistent across a score.  I'd suggest reading 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying-rhythms#Polymetric-notation 
> to see if you can change this to your satisfaction.

Apologies - I'd not read the top of your score to see that you have done 
this.  From printing a couple of the pieces of the score individually, it 
looks to me that they are actually different lengths, and I know Lily can be 
confused by this.  Viola 4 seems to me to have 17.5 complete (semi-breve) 
measures, whereas I think viola 3 has only got 16.8125.  I may be wrong 
about the exact numbers, but I think this is something worth checking 
carefully.


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Phil Holmes