Re: skipTypesetting oddities

[Damian leGassick]

On 18 Dec 2011, at 09:11, -Eluze wrote:

> 
> 
> Damian leGassick wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I appreciate the fact that it was designed to save time when entering
>> data, but I'm still curious as why even my minimal examples don't work
>> properly. 
>> 
>> I have a five hundred bar full orchestral score and I need to typeset just
>> bars 111-116 (and about a dozen other short extracts) for a musicological
>> paper. It would be a real timesaver if skipTypesetting could come to my
>> aid - it's close, but it always leaves errors in the first and last bars.
>> Simply padding my extract with a bar either side isn't the answer, because
>> those bars will then have their own errors.
>> 
>> 
> the "erratic" behaviour of skipTypeSetting seems to be known (s.
> https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1543&q=skiptypesetting&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Stars%20Owner%20Patch%20Needs%20Summary
> )
> 
> there i also found a simple trick to correct the funny timing: insert a
> harmless grace note before skipping typesetting!
> 
> to not spoil the original score i would suggest to define these skipping
> commands in a special voice.
> printing only measure 111 - 116 would then look so:
> 
> music = { … }
> 
> \new Staff <<
>  \music
>  \new Voice = "skipping" {
>    \set Score.skipTypesetting = ##t
>    s1*110
>    \grace s8 \set Score.skipTypesetting = ##f
>    s1*6
>    \grace s8 \set Score.skipTypesetting = ##t
>    s1*10
>    …
>  }
>>> 
> 
> 

Thanks again - but the grace note does not fix the slur problem in my second 
minimal example:

{
 \grace s8 \set Score.skipTypesetting = ##t
 e'2~ e'8( d' cis' b) a2~ a8( a' g' e') 
 \grace s8 \set Score.skipTypesetting = ##f
 d'16\p d' d' d' d' d' d' d' d'8 r8 r4
}


I guess for now i'll do it the old fashioned way - shame, because it so nearly 
gets it right

hopefully someone in dev will find some time to look at this again soon

Damian