Re: Problem with hemiola notation

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Alan McConnell" <address@hidden>
To: "Thomas Morley" <address@hidden>
Cc: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>; "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: Problem with hemiola notation


> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:32:25AM +0200, Thomas Morley wrote:
>
> I have already remarked: the string players who have
> played my parts as I set them -- bad bar checking and
> all -- didn't seem to have difficulty; they were more
> startled than anything else.  Which leads me to another
> thought:  is it possible to delete _one_ bar line?
> My thought(please excuse again the rough code indication,
> for which I have been chastised several times!):  what
> about
>        |ees4 d c | c4. d8 bes4. \delete{|} a8 a4. g8 | g2 r4 | ?
> This would be extremely unkosher -- I know nowhere where
> this is done -- but I think it would be readable.  I
> would like to try it on my LA friends and on my own 4tet.
>
> Is it easy to implement such a \delete function, as
> implemented above?  I would want the spacing to be
> just as if the barline were there . . .
>
> All thoughts/ideas/implementations welcome!

Remember that | is _not_ a bar line, it's a bar check.  Does the following 
illustrate how you could do this?

\relative c'' { c1 | c \bar "" c c | c }


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Phil Holmes