----- Original Message -----
> From: "T. Michael Sommers" <tmsomme...@gmail.com>
> To: "Lilypond-User Mailing List" <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2015 6:37:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Bar numbers seem to be one off
>
> On 9/26/2015 1:53 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> > "T. Michael Sommers" <tmsomme...@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> It seems that unless I put a
> >>
> >> \set Score.currentBarNumber = #0
> >>
> >> at the top of a score, the bar numbers that get printed are one higher
> >> than they should be. For instance, this, with the above line
> >> commented out, labels the first bar "2". What am I missing?
> >
> > It labels the _second _ bar "2". Which is entirely correct.
>
> You mean that the number for bar n appears over bar n - 1 instead of
> over bar n? That seems a bit counter-intuitive. Is that standard
> musical notation?
I think maybe you did not understand clearly what David Kastrup said. When
counting bar numbers, incomplete bars at the beginning are *not* counted. In
your example you start with:
\set Score.currentBarNumber = #0
r2. r2 b4 |
...which is a *complete* bar, and, therefor, is counted even though it contains
only a pick-up note. In order to get the next bar which is the first complete
bar numbered as '1' you should write:
\partial 4
b4 |
LilyPond follows standard music printing practice. Bar numbers will appear at
the left end of the measure and incomplete bars at the beginning will not be
counted **provided that you indicated they are incomplete by using \partial.**
-David
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