On Sun 28 Aug 2022 at 10:25:28 (+0100), Wols Lists wrote: > On 28/08/2022 04:46, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 28 Aug 2022 at 10:33:30 (+1000), Andrew Bernard wrote: > > > I suppose there is a way to do this but the concept is strange. I have > > > never seen any edition do this. Why? Speaking as an organist if I came > > > across this I would have to spend time working out what in earth the > > > bracketed number means. What does it add to the score in any practical > > > sense? > > > > If I'm playing/singing from a copy with unfolded repeats, and we > > want to start at measure 42, somewhere in the middle of your 2nd-time > > repeat, you wouldn't find any number close to 42 in your copy without > > this or a similar notation. > > > > I'd consider it mainstream. Turn to the opening of Sussex Carol in > > 100 Carols for Choirs (OUP) for an example that countless people will > > have on their shelves. > > > Hmm... > > Sounds like something lilypond should have, BUT. Like so many things, > it may be mainstream for you, I think I've encountered it once.
I used that word not because I think you should be familiar with it, but because a notation used by Oxford University Press, a mainstream publishing house, was described as a strange concept. We all move in our different spheres: I have some student feedback from an eminent British choral arranger who was mystified as to why the bar number skipped forward on the line after a 2nd-time bar; the audacity of counting the measures in the music itself, rather than as they happen to be printed in the folded score. > We > need an OPTIONAL unfold bar numbers setting :-) (I regularly complain > about Gould - a lot of music I typeset was printed before she was > born.) > > Even worse, we might need to make it optional per repeat! > > I think the worst I've come across in this regard is we had two > different typesettings of the same piece - some copies had unfolded > repeats, some copies had bar numbers, some copies had rehearsal marks > ... practice was a complete mess until we worked out what on earth was > going on :-) I suppose even adding bar numbers to scores was a strange concept for some, back whenever copyists/publishers first obliged us. Cheers, David.