Re: \partial and measure numbers

[David Kastrup]

"N. Andrew Walsh" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi fff,
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 2:25 PM foxfanfare <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The traditional behavior is to not count a partial measure in the total, so
>> yes it should be counted as "0". If you want to count it, you should just
>> add \set Score.currentBarNumber = #2 before your first measure.
>>
>
> huh. That's odd. For some reason I always counted pickup measures as bar 1
> in my scores. Far out. OK, thanks for clarifying.

You can repeat an 8-bar (say) phrase seamlessly even with pickup since
pickup and last measure (usually) add up to one complete bar.  Giving
both pickup and last measure a number of its own would be detrimental to
this kind of reckoning.

-- 
David Kastrup