Re: MIDI export and partial bars

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 02/04/12 22:55, Nils wrote:
> Midi understands time signatures:
> What I did in Laborejo.org is to start with a measure which has a timesignature 
> of the length of the upbeat and after that place the original timesig.

Ahh, from a playback point of view that's a nicer tweak than rests at the start 
-- but still, that midi will not import ideally into other software and will 
still have the bar-number offset.

> That said I don't care about Lilyponds midi export at all. I want Lilypond to 
> engrave PDFs. Midi export should be done one level higher. Needless to say this 
> is exactly what Laborejo does: One sourceformat with a high enough information 
> density to both generate Lilypond and Midi without any subtle information lost.

I _do_ care about Lilypond's MIDI export. ;-)  I'm happy to work around the 
issue, I'm just curious about the feasibility of a real fix to the issue I've 
described.