Re: rendering only a part of a score

[Nick Payne]

On 20/10/11 21:31, Ewald Gutenkunst wrote:
> Dear community,
>
> is there any way to render only a part of a score? I know the functions
>
> showFirst/LastLength = R1*5    and
> Score.skipTypesetting = ##t ##f
>
> but, for example, if i want to do a fine tuning of some objects,
> the layout ist lost in that range, so I have to render the complete score to 
> see the exact difference.
>
> I see the problem, that a little change anywhere can affect the complete 
> layout, page- and system breaking and perhaps there is theoretically no way, 
> but it would be a great help, if all changes, overrides, slur/tie beginnings 
> would be present in that selected range.
>
> What's about a "fast rendering" option for a few bars, with all important 
> information, but without any breakings and page-layout - only rendered in one vertically 
> system - like the Panorama view in Sibelius?

You can use the %{.....%} construction to comment out an arbitrarily 
large section of the score. You can use that in combination with 
showFirstLength/showLastLength to only render a few bars in the section 
you are working on. I use this exact method when I'm adding fingerings 
to an existing complete score. Provided you have %{ on a line by itself, 
then when you have finished you just add another percent symbol to the 
opening bracket to have it treated as a comment and ignored (i.e. %%{ 
will be treated as a comment whereas %{ is treated as the start of a 
comment block).

Nick