Re: Subtracting one from the measure number

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>
>> Well, judging from your picture, you have the magic of changing the
>> meter silently pat.  So instead of making a real mess in order to get
>> two bars of \time 4/4 count as one, why don't you just make a single bar
>> of \compoundTime #'((4 4) (4 4)) instead and manually place the \bar ";"
>> (or what it was) in the middle?  Because frankly: having two bar numbers
>> "4" right after another is not looking good to me, either.  You might
>> need to look at the beaming exceptions to use, but that looks saner to
>> me than rewinding the bar counter.
>
> My real piece of music doesn't have bar numbers every bar, and the
> place where I want to not count a bar number is a change from 4/4 time
> to 3/4 time, so in the real case, subtracting one from the bar number
> looks perfectly good and reproduces the original piece of music
> exactly.

Well, \compoundTime #'((4 4) (3 4)) for that siamese twin bar should
likely work as well.  I'm just throwing this out as an option that looks
a bit more straightforward from the LilyPond input side.  As opposed to
a real bar, it should be a bit more robust against strange things
happening when LilyPond chooses its line break just there.

Of course, with this approach accidentals carry over from one half of
the bar to the next.  That may or may not be desirable.

-- 
David Kastrup