On Jan 2, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Peter Van Kranenburg wrote:
> On 1/2/11 3:03 PM, Sven Axelsson wrote:
>> On 2 January 2011 14:33, Peter Van Kranenburg
>> <peter.van.kranenb...@meertens.knaw.nl> 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?
>>
>> Try
>>
>> \context { \Staff \remove "Bar_engraver" }
>>
>> That appears to do what you need.
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. This has the desired effect on the note spacing,
> but it raises other problems:
>
> 1. I cannot have the final bar line
> 2. Clefs and key signatures are not printed at the start of systems
> 3. line breaks occur everywhere, also in the middle of beams, etc.
>
> Unfortunately, the balance is negative.
>
> best,
> Peter
minor change since you said you needed a final barline:
\version "2.12.3"
\layout {
\context { \Score \remove Timing_translator \remove Bar_number_engraver }
\context { \Staff \override TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
}
}
music = {
\override Staff.BarLine #'stencil = ##f
\repeat unfold 32 { \repeat unfold 2 { a8[ a a a] } }
\revert Staff.BarLine #'stencil
\bar "|."
}
\score { \music \layout {} }
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