On 10/11/19, 6:58 AM, "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
"N. Andrew Walsh" <n.andrew.wa...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi fff, > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 2:25 PM foxfanfare <foxfanf...@gmx.com> 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. Based on the location of the number, and seeing how standard engraving practice works, I have just used the mental model that the number is not a measure number, but a bar number, and it numbers the bar line, with the measure following the bar line. Hence, in terms of timing, bar number 1 shows up at measure time 0 of the first measure. /partial sets measure time to be negative, so /partial notes actually exist before bar 1. This works for me. YMMV. Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user