On Jan 2, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Peter Van Kranenburg wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I'm typesetting unmetered music. My question is: what is the right (or best)
> approach to do so?
>
> If I set Score.timing to false, I have to insert \bar "" everywhere in order
> to let lilypond figure out a nice layout. That's tedious.
>
> My current approach is this:
>
> ----
> \layout {
> \context {
> \Score
> \remove "Bar_number_engraver"
> \override BarLine #'transparent = ##t
> \override TimeSignature #'transparent = ##t
> }
> \context {
> \PianoStaff
> \override SpanBar #'stencil =
> #(lambda (grob)
> (if (string=? (ly:grob-property grob 'glyph-name) "|")
> (set! (ly:grob-property grob 'glyph-name) ""))
> (ly:span-bar::print grob))
> }
> }
> ----
>
> At the beginning of the music I do: \set Timing.defaultBarType = ""
>
> So, I set the music with meter - providing lilypond many good points to
> insert line breaks - and I make all barlines empty and hide the meter. The
> problem is that the (empty) bar lines still occupy space, causing the notes
> to be spaced unevenly (see attached example - the bottom part is where the
> bar lines are when they are not empty. The space before the final note is
> really bad).
>
> I tried to set the next-note distance to 0 in the space-alist of barline, but
> that didn't remove all horizontal space.
>
> Is there a better way to do this?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best,
> Peter van Kranenburg
Perhaps something like:
\version "2.12.3"
\layout {
\context { \Score \remove Timing_translator \remove Bar_number_engraver }
\context {
\Staff
\override BarLine #'stencil = ##f
\override TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
}
}
music = { \repeat unfold 64 { a4 a a a } }
\score { \music \layout {} }
Hope this helps,
James
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