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Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffCon
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Kieren MacMillan |
Subject: |
Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext) |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 08:03:02 -0500 |
Hi Graham,
> On the positive side:
> +1 This scheme guarantees a unique id for each bar. The id increases in a
> sensible manner.
> +2 The scheme is robust with respect to re-formatting, if systems are
> split or joined.
> +3 Since Lilypond's default behaviour is to break lines only where
> barlines co-incide and to number bars at the start of each line
> (Staff.BarNumber.break-visibility = ##(#f #f #t)), it would work with that.
>
> On the negative side:
> -1 We have to introduce non-integers. I don't think the current
> bar-numbering engine will cope with that in cases where +3, above, does not
> apply.
I didn’t really think of (or, to be honest, care about) Lilypond’s current
bar-numbering engine; I was simply trying to solve a problem in notation. I can
make the bar numbers appear however I want (by overriding the stencil, manually
setting the barnumber counter, etc.).
> -2 Where +3 does apply, musicians will get confused. One will look at the
> start of the line (bar "n") and count across in the conventional way (n+1,
> n+2, ...) and announce the supposed bar number. Everyone else will then look
> on the wrong line entirely.
Sorry: I took it as self-evident [though, of course, it isn’t] that in
polymetric music, bar numbers must appear on every bar, not just at the
beginning of the line.
> On balance I don't think it would work.
Well, until I hear a superior suggestion, this is the one I’m going to use. =)
Thanks,
Kieren.
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- ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), Graham King, 2015/11/09
- Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), Kieren MacMillan, 2015/11/09
- Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), Christopher R. Maden, 2015/11/09
- Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), Kieren MacMillan, 2015/11/09
- Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), Christopher R. Maden, 2015/11/09
- Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), Graham King, 2015/11/09
- Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), Kieren MacMillan, 2015/11/09
- Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), Urs Liska, 2015/11/10
- Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), Kieren MacMillan, 2015/11/10
- Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), Urs Liska, 2015/11/10
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- Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), David Wright, 2015/11/09
- Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), Graham King, 2015/11/10
- Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), David Wright, 2015/11/12
- Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), Graham King, 2015/11/13
- Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), Kieren MacMillan, 2015/11/25
Re: ScholarLy and polymetric music? (bar numbering, \RemoveEmptyStaffContext), Urs Liska, 2015/11/10