Re: Anacrusis in multiple tunes on page

[Keith OHara]

Patrick or Cynthia Karl <pckarl <at> mac.com> writes:
> 
> Recently you posted:
> 
> What I am trying to do is is to put multiple tunes on a single page
> as for a "set" of tunes for a dance. The problem that I'm having is
> that many of these tunes start both the "A" part and the "B" part
> with an anacrusis and end the part with a shorter measure to 
> make the  number of beats work out.
 

> and Keith OHara responded:
> >
> > From what you wrote I see no problem,

> I think what he means is that your "more or less minimal example".
> doesn't throw any warning or error messages in LilyPond 2.18.0.  

I also meant that I saw no problem for LilyPond 2.18 to handle what
he described in text.   In traditional music, all the measures are the
same length, but sometimes the logical "A" and "B" parts begin a
fraction of a measure early, or repeats happen in the middle of a 
measure.

> music = \relative b' {
>   \partial 4 c4
>   c1
>   \break
>   \partial 4 d4
>   d1 }

This looks like it has five beats in a measure.  We don't want to dance
to that.  We want to finish the first tune in time to start the pickup
for the next tune in rhythm, so the tunes fit into a set.
\relative b' {
 \partial 4 c4
 c2. \bar"!" \break
 d4 d1 }

Maybe new LilyPond will allow you to put \partial in the middle of a 
piece, but we do not want to use \partial in the middle of a piece.