Re: Learning LilyPond, comments invited

[Urs Liska]

Colin Tennyson <address@hidden> schrieb:
>Carl Sorensen-3 wrote
>> Your music has some durations that cross bar lines.  These durations
>mess
>> up the bar checks.  Is there a reason you don't separate them into
>tied
>> groups so there are bar line breaks?
>
>
>Ah, let me explain.
>
>The composer, Philippe Verdelot, lived somewhere around 1500, and back
>then
>they didn't use bar lines yet.
>
>Please consult the following entry from the LilyPond documentation:
>http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/working-with-ancient-music_002d_002dscenarios-and-solutions#mensurstriche-layout
>
>It's a compromise. The ancient notation isn't copied, but some
>characteristics are allowed to shine through, particularly the fact
>that
>renaissance music has no concept of measures.

I didn't follow the thread so far.
But this sounds like you should simply drop the barchecks.
If the music doesn't have a notion of measures, why check for them?

Urs

>
>That poses a challenge, of course. Can the music typesetting software
>handle
>that requirement? It may be, I don't know, that graphically oriented
>software is rigidly dependent on bar checks at _every_ bar. 
>
>The LilyPond developers are aware of all this, of course. LilyPond must
>be
>able to reproduce a wide range of typesetting styles.
>
>
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