Re: Song starts off with an incomplete bar...

[Ben]

On 12/5/2017 5:28 PM, Chris Jones wrote:

How should I handle it?

Here's the "simple example":

  
 So it has to be something very basic that I must have missed while
 reading the fine manual over the weekend... and I can't think of the
 proper keywords to point me to the relevant documentation. 

 How could I fix this?

 Thanks,

 CJ

 PS. Attaching the example file and its pdf ouput to clarify.

Hi CJ,

I believe it's as easy as adding:

\global
    \partial 16 d'16                \bar "||"

See attached. Is this what you were after? :)


From:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/advanced-rhythmic-commands#partial-measure

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