Hi David, Thanks! So now we know - in actuality they are not bar numbers, and the source of my perplexity is resolved. For the majority of folks who don’t override the breaking, they are equivalent to bars.
Andrew On 30 Oct 2015, at 00:55, David Nalesnik <david.nales...@gmail.com> wrote: The [8][16]... output is created by lily/paper-column-engraver.cc, and it represents an ongoing count of breakable columns. Apparently, they are organized in groups of 8 as a progress indication. Your override makes paper columns unbreakable, so there's nothing to count. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user