On 7/12/06, Mathieu Giraud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/6/06, Juergen Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> please note that \partial or \upbeat, whatever you call it, has > musicologically a special meaning: the first, incomplete bar, and the last > bar of a piece or of a major section of a piece (typically the bar before > the next "||" bar glyph) should sum up to a complete bar. > > For example, if a song with 4/4 meter starts with "\partial 4 f4", the > last bar should, by convention, have a total length of 3 quarter notes. > Having said that, you never should use "\partial" or "\upbeat" somewhere > within a piece. If lily nevertheless accepts it within a piece without > issuing an error or warning, I consider this a bug. I often use partials to allow line breaks in the middle of some bars : breakThreeFour = { \partial 2. s2. \bar "" \break \partial 4 s4 } It makes more readable music, especially when there are multiple verses. Mathieu
Questions: - Why do you add the \partials and skips? Why is not just \bar "" \break sufficient? - Isn't the bar numbering messed up by your hack? Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
