Re: Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music

[Jeffery Shivers]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Peter Toye <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jeffery,
>
> I'm trying to get my head around the code you sent me - it seems that real
> programmers (you and David both) don't write comments :)
>
> Displaying multiple bar numbers needs a bit more thought. Firstly, it has to
> be switchable off. One of my examples has a single bar repeated 16 times - I
> suspect the bar numbering would be wider than the music.

What if, in that case, there was an option to display as "1, 2, 3 ...
15" or "1, 2, 3 - 15" or something like that (using arbitrary numbers
there of course). I suggest this as an *option* because there may be
some cases where you want to display all five, six or more bar numbers
without ellipsis.

> Also, should the
> bar numbers be on the first bar of the repeated section (probably a good
> default), and if not, how does one specify which bar to number? At the
> moment, probably not worth while spending time on.
>

I actually think this is an interesting problem, and I would guess
that you aren't the only LP'er who has wanted something like this
before (or will in the future).

This is either a matter of scheming up a new engraver or using markup.
The latter will at least take less time, so I will see if I can come
up with a convincing approach that way first.

> Best regards,
>
> Peter
> mailto:address@hidden
> www.ptoye.com

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