Re: Vertically align bar line in polyphonic music

[Marcel Korpel]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 1:31 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> 16th century mass with full bar lines?

At those places where note lengths exceed measures, the bar line will
be drawn dashed (using

\dl note \nl     where

dl = \set Timing.defaultBarType = "dashed"
nl = \set Timing.defaultBarType = "|"

If you know a better way of doing this, great).

This is the way the New Josquin Edition prints mensural music, because
bar lines between staves interfere with the text.

> Anyway, you can scale the actual duration of a note with a given optical
> duration by doing somthing like
>
> c\longa*7/4

This did the trick, and thanks to Matthew for the tip about the timing
translator and the bar line engraver; it's just that I made those
changes years ago for a Palestrina mass and I can't remember why I
made them.

Regards, Marcel