Re: Removing Bar_engraver removes clef

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Nick Payne" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: Removing Bar_engraver removes clef


> On 11/06/11 13:11, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> > On 6/10/11 8:25 PM, "Nick Payne"<address@hidden>  wrote:
> >
> > > If I'm setting out a scale that goes over more than one stave, and use
> > > \remove "Bar_engraver" to remove the barlines, then the clef (and key
> > > signature if any) also disappear from the second stave. If I just make
> > > the barlines transparent, I still get an extra space where barlines are.
> > > Is it possible to use \remove "Bar_engraver" and retain the clef and key
> > > signature on the second and subsequent staves?
> > I recommend that you use \cadenzaOn to eliminate the barlines in the 
> > first
> > line of music.
> Thanks. Using that, together with \bar "" wherever I wanted a line break, 
> did what I wanted. I thought that I should be able to use \break rather 
> than \bar "", but \break did not give a line break, the music just ran off 
> the right hand edge of the page.
>
> Nick

It's quite clear in the notation reference:

"LilyPond will insert line breaks and page breaks only at a bar line. Unless 
the unmetered music
ends before the end of the staff line, you will need to insert invisible bar 
lines with
\bar "" to indicate where breaks can occur."


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Phil Holmes