Re: polymetric music with mensuration lines

[Simon Albrecht]

Hi Pierre,

please read more carefully! That’s not what Knut asked: he wants to 
combine „Mensurstriche“ with polymetric notation.

Hi Knut,
I’m afraid this is not easy to achieve. The „Mensurstriche“ in LilyPond 
are technically SpanBars, and they can only be drawn between two bar 
lines on the adjacent staves, and MultiMeasureRests can’t cross 
barlines. Which incidentally also shows that Distler’s concept isn’t 
flawless…
The easiest solution would be to choose a different way of notation and 
change defaultBarType:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\version "2.18"

{
  c'1
  c'
  \bar "|."
}

\layout {
  \context {
    \Score
    defaultBarType = "'"
  }
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Actually, if in a polymetric situation you have moved 
Default_bar_line_engraver to Staff level, defaultBarType needs to be 
defined there as well (I think).

Else you’d probably need a custom bar line printing procedure, which I’m 
sorry I have no time to do right now. But maybe someone else would like 
to chime in :-)

Best, Simon


On 09.09.2016 19:37, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote:
> Hi Knut,
>
> Do you mean something like:
>
> \version "2.18"
>
> \layout {
>   \context {
>     \Staff
>     \override BarLine.transparent = ##t
>   }
> }
>
> <<
>   \new GrandStaff <<
>     \new Staff \new Voice = "A" {
>       \repeat unfold 10 { c''1 }
>       \revert Staff.BarLine.transparent
>       \bar "|."
>     }
>     \new Lyrics \lyricsto "A" \lyricmode { \repeat unfold 10 bla }
>     \new Staff \new Voice = "B" {
>       \repeat unfold 10 { c''1 }
>       \revert Staff.BarLine.transparent
>       \bar "|."
>     }
>     \new Lyrics \lyricsto "B" \lyricmode { \repeat unfold 10 bla }
>     \new Staff \new Voice = "C" {
>       \repeat unfold 10 { c''1 }
>       \revert Staff.BarLine.transparent
>       \bar "|."
>     }
>     \new Lyrics \lyricsto "C" \lyricmode { \repeat unfold 10 bla }
>   >>
>   \new GrandStaff <<
>     \new Staff \new Voice = "D" {
>       \repeat unfold 10 { c''1 }
>       \revert Staff.BarLine.transparent
>       \bar "|."
>     }
>     \new Lyrics \lyricsto "D" \lyricmode { \repeat unfold 10 bla }
>     \new Staff \new Voice = "E" {
>       \repeat unfold 10 { c''1 }
>       \revert Staff.BarLine.transparent
>       \bar "|."
>     }
>     \new Lyrics \lyricsto "E" \lyricmode { \repeat unfold 10 bla }
>     \new Staff \new Voice = "F" {
>       \repeat unfold 10 { c''1 }
>       \revert Staff.BarLine.transparent
>       \bar "|."
>     }
>     \new Lyrics \lyricsto "F" \lyricmode { \repeat unfold 10 bla }
>   >>
> >>
>
> HTH,
> Cheers,
> Pierre
>
> 2016-09-09 19:07 GMT+02:00 Knut Petersen <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>>:
>
>     Hi everybody!
>
>     Polymetric music is no problem, neiter are mensural lines.
>     But: Any idea to combine both with lilypond to achieve
>     something close to the attached example from Hugo Distler?
>
>     cu,
>      Knut
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