Hi Laura, > The short answer is because I didn't know about \omit. > > The longer answer is that what I do now is a direct descendant of what I > figured out to do back in 1996 or so. At that time, the options were > very different from what they are now. And there was a lot less > support/documentation for how to write music without barlines.
That makes sense! As someone with literally hundreds of scores engraved in various applications over more than three decades, I totally get the “inertia” factor… :) Nowadays, Lilypond has both \omit and \hide, each of which does a different and potentially useful thing. Just an FYI, in case you didn’t know! Best, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his) ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: kie...@kierenmacmillan.info
