unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread Peter Van Kranenburg
Dear list, I'm typesetting unmetered music. My question is: what is the right (or best) approach to do so? If I set Score.timing to false, I have to insert \bar everywhere in order to let lilypond figure out a nice layout. That's tedious. My current approach is this: \layout {

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 2 January 2011 14:33, Peter Van Kranenburg peter.van.kranenb...@meertens.knaw.nl wrote: Dear list, I'm typesetting unmetered music. My question is: what is the right (or best) approach to do so? If I set Score.timing to false, I have to insert \bar everywhere in order to let lilypond

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread Sven Axelsson
On 2 January 2011 15:03, Sven Axelsson sven.axels...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 January 2011 14:33, Peter Van Kranenburg peter.van.kranenb...@meertens.knaw.nl wrote: Dear list, I'm typesetting unmetered music. My question is: what is the right (or best) approach to do so? If I set Score.timing

unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Oddly, I'm dealing with the exact same problem just now! Like you, I've set a metre and then set the default bar line type to empty. Simply removing the Bar_engraver will lead to disaster, although it will make all the notes evenly spaced...The clefs on subsequent systems will disappear. Now sure

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread Peter Van Kranenburg
On 1/2/11 3:03 PM, Sven Axelsson wrote: On 2 January 2011 14:33, Peter Van Kranenburg peter.van.kranenb...@meertens.knaw.nl wrote: Dear list, I'm typesetting unmetered music. My question is: what is the right (or best) approach to do so? If I set Score.timing to false, I have to insert \bar

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread Peter Van Kranenburg
On 1/2/11 3:09 PM, Sven Axelsson wrote: You can also \remove Time_signature_engraver in the \Staff context if you don't want the invisible time signature to take up space. Thanks. That looks better indeed. best, Peter ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread Peter Van Kranenburg
On 1/2/11 3:17 PM, Frauke Jurgensen wrote: Oddly, I'm dealing with the exact same problem just now! Like you, I've set a metre and then set the default bar line type to empty. Simply removing the Bar_engraver will lead to disaster, although it will make all the notes evenly spaced...The clefs

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 2, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Peter Van Kranenburg wrote: Dear list, I'm typesetting unmetered music. My question is: what is the right (or best) approach to do so? If I set Score.timing to false, I have to insert \bar everywhere in order to let lilypond figure out a nice layout.

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread Neil Puttock
On 2 January 2011 13:33, Peter Van Kranenburg peter.van.kranenb...@meertens.knaw.nl wrote: At the beginning of the music I do: \set Timing.defaultBarType = So, I set the music with meter - providing lilypond many good points to insert line breaks - and I make all barlines empty and hide the

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread James Bailey
On Jan 2, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Peter Van Kranenburg wrote: On 1/2/11 3:03 PM, Sven Axelsson wrote: On 2 January 2011 14:33, Peter Van Kranenburg peter.van.kranenb...@meertens.knaw.nl wrote: Dear list, I'm typesetting unmetered music. My question is: what is the right (or best) approach to

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread Peter Van Kranenburg
On 1/2/11 3:55 PM, James Bailey wrote: On Jan 2, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Peter Van Kranenburg wrote: On 1/2/11 3:03 PM, Sven Axelsson wrote: On 2 January 2011 14:33, Peter Van Kranenburg peter.van.kranenb...@meertens.knaw.nl wrote: Dear list, I'm typesetting unmetered music. My question is:

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread Peter Van Kranenburg
On 1/2/11 3:54 PM, Neil Puttock wrote: On 2 January 2011 13:33, Peter Van Kranenburg peter.van.kranenb...@meertens.knaw.nl wrote: At the beginning of the music I do: \set Timing.defaultBarType = So, I set the music with meter - providing lilypond many good points to insert line breaks - and

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread Frauke Jurgensen
Hmm, when I tried this, I got something like mensurstriche instead...but that must be because I was using a PianoStaff. When I get rid of the PianoStaff, I can get the (lack of space-occupying) bar lines I want, but attempts at creating a StaffGroup to give me back my curly brace have failed so

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread Neil Puttock
On 2 January 2011 15:34, Peter Van Kranenburg peter.van.kranenb...@meertens.knaw.nl wrote: One final question - maybe trivial - but I am not able to figure out what the equivalent of \set Timing.defaultBarType = in the layout block should be. \layout { \context { \Score

Re: unmetered music - page breaks and empty bar lines

2011-01-02 Thread Peter Van Kranenburg
On 1/2/11 5:12 PM, Frauke Jurgensen wrote: Hmm, when I tried this, I got something like mensurstriche instead...but that must be because I was using a PianoStaff. When I get rid of the PianoStaff, I can get the (lack of space-occupying) bar lines I want, but attempts at creating a StaffGroup to