Hi Laura,
> The short answer is because I didn't know about \omit.
>
> The longer answer is that what I do now is a direct descendant of what I
> figured out to do back in 1996 or so. At that time, the options were
> very different from what they are now. And there was a lot less
> support/docu
> "Kieren" == Kieren MacMillan writes:
>> What I do is make the barlines transparent and with 0 width:
>> \override Staff.BarLine #'transparent = ##t
>> \override Staff.BarLine #'extra-spacing-width = #'(0 . 0)
Kieren> Why not
Kieren> \omit BarLine
Kieren> ??
Thank you Jean !
Le lun. 4 janv. 2021 à 21:42, Jean Abou Samra a écrit :
...
> It is not at all silly. The path to the answer is a bit convoluted.
>
...
Hi John,
> "\omit BarLine" did not work. Indeed, it did omit bar lines, but the
> composition ran off the left margin of the page.
I wasn’t posing that as a possible solution to your problem. =)
I’m just [still] wondering why Laura Conrad, as a regular course of action,
uses her particular me
Dear Pierre Perol-Schneider, I am sorry, but \bar ".|:" and \bar ":|." did
not work.
Dear Kieren MacMillan, I am sorry, but "\omit BarLine" did not work.
Indeed, it did omit bar lines, but the composition ran off the left margin
of the page.
Dear Laura Conrad, I am sorry, but your solution also di
Hi Laura,
> What I do is make the barlines transparent and with 0 width:
> \override Staff.BarLine #'transparent = ##t
> \override Staff.BarLine #'extra-spacing-width = #'(0 . 0)
Why not
\omit BarLine
??
Curious,
Kieren.
Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/hi
Hi Pierre,
Maybe it's a silly question but why not simply something like:
\version "2.18"
{ c'1 \bar ".|:" c' c' c' \bar ":|." c' c' }
Cheers,
Pierre
It is not at all silly. The path to the answer is a bit convoluted.
The issue is breaks. A \bar command needs a Bar_engraver to listen to
i
Maybe it's a silly question but why not simply something like:
\version "2.18"
{ c'1 \bar ".|:" c' c' c' \bar ":|." c' c' }
Cheers,
Pierre
Le lun. 4 janv. 2021 à 20:23, Jean Abou Samra a écrit :
> > I need to be able to engrave repeats, but I fear that the
> > bar-engraver, which I turned off
> "J" == J Stasko writes:
J> I need to be able to engrave repeats, but I fear that the bar-engraver,
J> which I turned off for chant music, is responsible for engraving the
J> repeats: when I turn it back on, then the repeats appear, but since the
J> music is chant, it runs of
