Re: Multimeasure rests over a cadenza

[James]

Hello,

On 9 April 2012 11:03, Thomas Morley <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 9. April 2012 04:26 schrieb James Harkins <address@hidden>:
>> At Sun, 8 Apr 2012 09:39:13 -0500,
>> David Nalesnik wrote:
>>> Hi James,
>>> Possibly the following thread will be useful to you:
>>>  http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg68492.html
>>
>> Thanks, this is a lot closer. (By the way, it seems that mail-archive is on 
>> the wrong side of the Great Firewall of China -- not a big deal, but it did 
>> make it less convenient to access the link. Speaking just for myself, I'd 
>> prefer links to gmane or nabble archives.)
>>
>> It's "closer" -- I'm now getting bar check failures only at the ends of the 
>> two cadenzas, where I think I was getting more of them before. But, it's 
>> still failing and the multi-measure rests are drawn in the wrong place.
>>
>> So, a more illustrative example, using actual notes from my piece and 
>> replicating the context (one bar of cadenza, one metered bar, and another 
>> bar of cadenza).
>>
>> It looks to me like time advances the correct number of beats, but LP 
>> doesn't recognize that it should roll over to the next bar at that point. 
>> I'm guessing that for each cadenza + following-bar pair, where there should 
>> be two full-bar rests, only one is being drawn (probably the first one, for 
>> the cadenza) and the other one is being dropped because of the bar check 
>> failure. Then it draws the single full-bar rest in the middle of the span 
>> for /both/ bars.
>>
>> It doesn't help to include an explicit \bar "|" after the \cadenzaToMusic 
>> calls.
>>
>> LP output. For debugging I restored the (format...) call, which shows that 
>> the duration of both cadenzas is being calculated correctly.
>
> Hi James,
>
> the cadenzaToMusic-function _replaces_ \cadenzaOn and \cadenzaOff.
> If you delete these commands it works and there is no need for manual bars:

Thanks Thomas, I have added this snippet to the LilyPond Snippet
Repository - awaiting approval.

James