>
> As illustrated by the diverse responses you already recevied, the
> question is what you want to achieve.
>
Yes… maybe I should think about that some more. Usually I spend more time
looking at ways to "do it right" than actually just writing some music.
It's a bad habit!
> If this is a way of saving typing when typesetting music with recurring
> material, you might be able to use \tag to handle slight variations,
> such as shortening a measure that is to be followed by a pickup.
>
I'll look into that. It may be what I'm looking for.
Thanks!
Randy
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 11:34 PM Mats Bengtsson <mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se>
wrote:
>
> On 2019-02-07 15:08, 智樂喬 wrote:
> > I'm sure I'm not the first person to ask this, but I'm looking for a
> > clean, way to align music variables which begin with partial measures.
> > For example,
> >
> > \version "2.19.82"
> > partA = { c'2 b | R1*3 }
> > partB = { \partial 4 g4 | \bar "||" c'1 }
> > \score { { \partA \partB } }
> >
> > In reality, there would be multiple partBs and some of them would
> > start with a pickup and some of them wouldn't. One think I can do is
> > explicitly shorten the end of partA so that partB lines up, but it
> > involves some mixing of content and structure. Is there a best
> > practice for this situation?
>
> As illustrated by the diverse responses you already recevied, the
> question is what you want to achieve.
>
> I recently typeset a Telemann suite with a number of "movements" to be
> played attacca, which in the original print was typeset without any
> separation between these movements. I then took the typesetting decision
> to keep it that way and used a solution more or less identical to your
> example above, with an additional \bar "||" \break between these parts.
> Thanks to the improvements introduced in Lilypond 2.19, these mid-piece
> \partials work smoothly. However, I could also have chosen other ways to
> typeset the music.
>
> If this is a way of saving typing when typesetting music with recurring
> material, you might be able to use \tag to handle slight variations,
> such as shortening a measure that is to be followed by a pickup. Or
> simply leave out the bar that varies, and insert it manually between the
> music that's stored in variables.
>
> /Mats
>
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