Re: bar number position (direction) numerical definitions overlap

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Paul Scott <address@hidden>:

> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > I guess you intended to send this to the mailing list, not to me personally.
> Yes.  I was having some trouble with Thunderbird and accidently sent 
> it to you.
> > I'm still a bit confused.  Do you want to determine
> > if the bar number is printed over the beginning or the end of the measure?
> I probably would be happy just being able to have UP and DOWN as 
> choices and have the bar number only at the left.  I was partially 
> responding to the confusion in the documentation and to the bug 
> described below.
> > Personally, as a musician I would be very confused to see
> > a bar number printed at the end of a measure.
> I agree and this is exactly what current default does except it is 
> also the bar number of the previous bar.  This probably comes from 
> the code to  position bar numbers at the beginning of the line in 
> which case the bar number does precede the measure to which if refers.

I think what you really mean is that the bar numbers are right aligned
with respect to the beginning bar line of the measure. This is easily 
corrected by
\override Score.BarNumber #'self-alignment-X = #CENTER
but I agree that this should be the default (or maybe even left
alignment, so the full bar number is within the correct measure).

Test case:
\version "2.8.5"
\relative c' {
% Print bar number on every bar line: \override Score.BarNumber 
#'break-visibility = #all-visible
% Default is right aligned bar numbers, the following looks
% more sensible !?
\override Score.BarNumber #'self-alignment-X = #CENTER
\repeat unfold 10 {c d e f}
}

   /Mats