Re: Automatic Accidentals ignore unmetered music

[Mats Bengtsson]

Erik Sandberg wrote:
> On Thursday 20 January 2005 09.34, Peter Leschev wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> >            Firstly, thankyou for writing such a great piece of software,
> > the quality of the output is incredible!
> >
> >    I'm currently typesetting vocal music which doesn't have time
> > sigatures, but bar lines are present at various stages of the pieces. I've
> > noticed (only tested in 2.4.2) that the Automatic Accidentals functionality
> > treats unmetered music as one large bar rather than a number of individual
> > bars separated by \bar "|"'s. The documentation is unclear on the expected
> > behaviour, however it would be great if the Automatic Accidentals followed
> > the manually inserted \bar "|"'s as well. I've attached a testcase below.
>
>
> In metered music, you can have a barline in the middle of a bar (e.g. a thin 
> double barline, or a repeat barline). This does not affect the way 
> accidentals are typeset.
>
> If you want barlines the way you describe, then you probably don't have 
> unmetered music, but just irregularly metered music. You will probably want 
> bar numbers to increase between bars. The only way I can find to do this, is 
> to set measureLength individually for each bar, see
> 5.3.9 Time administration
>
> I think it could be nice to add a command like \newBar to lilypond, which 
> would be roughly equivalent to setting measureTiming to measureLength (except 
> that this doesn't work). This command should IMHO also be added to 
> \cadenzaOff. (i.e., after a cadenza is over, a new bar will start). Any 
> opinions?

I was hoping that
  \set Score.barCheckSynchronize = ##t
would make ordinary bar checks '|' work as your proposed \newBar,
but they didn't.

   /Mats