Re: Multi-Measure Rests: Adding to what gets printed?

[Alexander Kobel]

rasAK wrote:
> In my orchestral parts, I would like Multi-Measure Rests to have both:
> (1) an integer representing the number of measures in the current MMR,
> centered above (default behavior)
> (2) a second text indicating which measures are included in the given MMR,
> in parentheses and centered BELOW the MMR.
>
> (1) happens automatically.  (2) is what I don't know how to do.

Hi, Randy,

http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=651 includes what you're after, just 
that it writes a bar number on every single measure by default.  But in 
principle you can copy most of the overrides concerning 
MultiMeasureRestNumbers from BarNumberStaff into a second voice (for 
(2)), which shares but the MMRs with your given voices (which do (1)).

To add the parentheses, replace lines 99 to 102 by:
   (if (= start-measure end-measure)
    (string-append "(" (number->string start-measure) ")")  ;; or only 
"" in this line if you don't want single bars numbered at all
    (string-append
     "(" (number->string start-measure) " – " (number->string 
end-measure) ")"))))

If you just want to plug in a BarNumberStaff as shown in the LSR 
snippet, you just have to write "" in line 100, as stated above, and 
you're basically done, since single measures won't have a visible 
BarNumber text in this case.

> As an additional wrinkle, if Rehearsal Letter "A" happened to fall at mm. 9,
> Example 1b should output 2 MMRs ( |--4--| and |--6--|) with "( 4 - 7 )" and
> "( 8 - 13 )" below.

Sorry, no idea on this one.


Cheers,
Alexander