Re: line breaks

[Graham Percival]

On 15-Mar-06, at 10:31 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.

> > 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.
>
> I haven't done this yet but the number of beats per bar is still well 
> defined.  Is this documented somewhere?

Oh, it's still defined.  I was thinking of having a
global = {
\time 3/4 \partial 128 s128 \time 2/4 \partial 128 s128
\override whatever #'hide Time-signature
\repeat unfold 40 { \time 3/4 s2. \time 2/4 s2 }
}


> > 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.
>
> So it could be reasonable to give an error when the number of 
> beats/bar is exceeded (when not in a cadenza).  I would guess the 
> present bar line logic already presents the condition where the error 
> message could be added.  I have generated many pages of music without 
> this feature using | when I need it but I can imagine it might help 
> some users.

What's wrong with adding a | every so often to your code?
- Graham