RE: Do we really offer the future?

[Mark Stephen Mrotek]

Simon,

 

Actually Lilypond does check the bar checks and notifies if an incorrect number of beats (as stated in the \time) are in a measure.

 

Mark

 

From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Simon Albrecht
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 9:31 AM
To: Michael Hendry; H. S. Teoh
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Do we really offer the future?

 

Am 26.04.2015 um 18:10 schrieb Michael Hendry:

 

On 26 Apr 2015, at 15:16, H. S. Teoh <address@hidden> wrote:

 

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 06:15:13AM +0000, Keith OHara wrote:

Michael Hendry <hendry.michael <at> gmail.com> writes:

I routinely put the bar checks at the _beginnings_ of the bars,
thus...

                | a4 b c d

                | a8 b c d e f g a

                | a16 b c d e f g a b c d e f g a b

That works very nicely. 

When I had a measure that took more than one line of input, I used to
try to make that clear by indenting the continuation line a bit
further, but that was lost on any auto-indenting.  Now I can just
 | \acciaccatura d,8 <b, g>4.(\ff )b8 a4.( )g8
 | a4.( )c8 b4.( )a8
 | \acciaccatura ais8 b8[-.\fz ]b-. b[-.\fz ]b-.
 b[-.\fz ]b-. \acciaccatura ais8 b[-.\fz ]b-.
 | <c, d b>8 r <c, c a>8\downbow r \acciaccatura d, <b, g>2
and I can easily find my measures.

[...]

Am I the only one who puts bar checks at *both* the beginning and end of
a bar?

| a4 b c d |
| e f g a |

 

Probably <G>.

 

Why would you want to check each bar twice?

These bar checks are mostly for humans to ease reading of the code, not for machine interpreting.

Yours, Simon