Re: markup for partial measures

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2011-06-24 um 18:55 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:

> You don't need to use \partial for the final measure or repeats at  
> all.

Thank you for the hint - it didn't occur to me to try, since it seemed  
necessary in earlier versions.

> > BTW: Some songbooks use partial measures at every start and end of a
> > line, if the song starts with an upbeat. E.g. with a 1/4 upbeat in a
> > 4/4 time, every line ends with a 3/4 partial and the next starts with
> > a 1/4 partial.
> > Some notation programs are able to do that automatically - IIRC I saw
> > it with Capella.
> > Is that possible with LilyPond without manually inserting \breaks and
> > \partials?
>
> It's not easily possible. However, you don't need \partials at all  
> and you can
> do it without manually inserting breaks (i.e. you can let LilyPond  
> do the
> automatic line breaking without hardcoding line breaks).
...
> Here's a simple example:
>
> \score {
>  \relative c'' {
>    \partial 4 c4 |
>    \repeat unfold 55 { c c c\bar "" c |\noBreak }
>    c c c \bar"|."
>  }
> }

Thank you again, but that's rather verbose - and since I don’t really  
need it (yet), I will just store it for the day when my editor will  
request it ;-)


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