Re: forcing bar number events

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> It would be a great simplification if it would not be necessary to
>> artificially break up `R1*4' into `R1 R1*3'.
> 
> The multi-measure rests break on any event, tempo change, double
> bar...,
> 
> so you could put a repeating s1*5 in the 'conductor' part if you
> want to prevent the rests from joining across even mulitples of 5 in
> the bar number.
> 
> \new Staff <<
>   { s1*4 \repeat unfold 20 s1*5 }
>   {/* your music here */} >>

I know that, thanks, but it is not very elegant IMHO.  In particular,
you have to adjust the number of bars of the score, AFAIK, in case you
are adding, say, three bars.  And it gets really tiresome if you have
a lot of metric changes.

Maybe a scheme engraver could help?  Something that listens to the bar
number counter, emitting events to trigger multi-measure rest breaks?


    Werner