At 08:30 on 24 Jun 2026, Gabriel Ellsworth wrote: > Paul, I thought of one possible approach.
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2026, Paul Scott wrote: >> How can I get measure count every 4 (or any different >> interval) bars? >> > On Tue, 23 Jun 2026, Paul Scott wrote: >> I think I found the section that you are citing: >> >> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.27/Documentation/notation/bars#measure-counts >> >> I have never used measure counts myself, but I imagine >> that someone with experience has an answer to your >> question! >> >> I am rewriting some parts to a piece that has some >> instruments playing a repeated pattern over 14 measures. >> The measure counts help the players keep track of where >> they are. >> > Here’s my “solution.” I put that word in (curly > <https://practicaltypography.com/straight-and-curly-quotes.html>) > quotation marks because this is very much a manual hack. > What I am doing below is removing the MeasureCounter > stencil surgically. Please see the following > documentation: 36.7.1 Removing the stencil > <https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.27/Documentation/notation/visibility-of-objects#removing-the-stencil> > . You might be better overriding MeasureCounter.text with a new function based on the original measure-counter::text: https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/blob/master/scm/output-lib.scm#L2356 Just include a modulo check on left-number-text and return an empty string if you don't want to print that number. -- Mark Knoop
