In message <4a68a0ff.7040...@ultrasw.com>, Paul Scott
<psl...@ultrasw.com> writes
Is there a setting or something to do this automatically? Why isn't
it done by default anyway? (btw: the override command is just used to
demonstrate the problem, I only need the measure numbers at the
beginning of each line.)
This has been discussed here before. This is the way LilyPond works.
Lily's way is consistent with many printed scores even though your way
is sometimes done.
There's a third way too ... I sometimes come across pieces where - let's
say - an eight bar repeated phrase is counted as sixteen bars. Usually
because some other part has the repeat written out in full.
But yes - the lilypond way is the way I normally see music - I almost
never see it where two bars have the same number. Why would you do that?
The main reason for bar numbers is, surely, for the conductor to be able
to accurately identify a bar during a rehearsal. How is an ambiguous bar
number going to help? What use are bar numbers if they are ambiguous?
Cheers,
Wol
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Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk
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