Re: line breaks

[Graham Percival]

On 15-Mar-06, at 9:53 AM, Paul Scott wrote:

> Graham Percival wrote:
>
> > This is exactly what the bar line check does!  See 6.2.4 Bar check!  
> > c'4 c c c | c c c c |
>
> Certainly but I for one don't put | at the end of every bar.  I 
> normally only use | when I have a problem.
>
> Are there musical cases where you can have more beats in a bar than 
> the time signature indicates?

Cadenzas, I guess?   \cadenzaOn

Other special cases can be done with \partial.

Benjamin Britten occasionally used double meters -- say, a piece that 
changes between 3/4 and 2/4 on every single bar.  These are notated 
with a 3/4 2/4 at the beginning of the piece, but nothing in the rest 
of the piece.  We can do this in lilypond via other means.

Other than those examples, I don't think there are any musical cases 
where you can have more beats in the bar than the time signature 
indicates.

Cheers,
- Graham