>From what I've seen, \cadenzaOn seems to be the preferred way of writing >unmeasured music.
On Jan 3, 2014, at 3:14 AM, Colin Tennyson <colintenny...@outlook.com> wrote: > Carl Sorensen-3 wrote >> Your music has some durations that cross bar lines. These durations mess >> up the bar checks. Is there a reason you don't separate them into tied >> groups so there are bar line breaks? > > > Ah, let me explain. > > The composer, Philippe Verdelot, lived somewhere around 1500, and back then > they didn't use bar lines yet. > > Please consult the following entry from the LilyPond documentation: > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/working-with-ancient-music_002d_002dscenarios-and-solutions#mensurstriche-layout > > It's a compromise. The ancient notation isn't copied, but some > characteristics are allowed to shine through, particularly the fact that > renaissance music has no concept of measures. > > That poses a challenge, of course. Can the music typesetting software handle > that requirement? It may be, I don't know, that graphically oriented > software is rigidly dependent on bar checks at _every_ bar. > > The LilyPond developers are aware of all this, of course. LilyPond must be > able to reproduce a wide range of typesetting styles. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Learning-LilyPond-comments-invited-tp156969p157002.html > Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
