I'm typesetting a set of piano fingering exercises from 1800's.
These are a series of single-hand fingering phrases set on a single staff.
Although not stated, most longer phrases have bars for 4/4 timing.
However, many of the phrases don't amount to a complete measure, or the exercise may have several bars but end without a full bar's worth of notes.
The author doesn't bother with rests to complete the bar. He just adds an end-bar (which I'm currently just typesetting with \bar "|."), and begins the next exercise.
The next phrase is, in itself, a new piece...the only thing that seems to prevail is the clef.
The issue I have is that just adding [\bar "|."] doesn't reset lilypond's automatic bar generator. When I begin the next exercise, I'm getting the automatic bar as soon as I enter enough notes to complete previous (incomplete) bar.
Is there a way to trigger lilypond to arbitrarily reset its bar counter mid-staff?
If not, I suspect I'll have to correct this by entering rests and somehow hide them from showing up on the staff if I want to match the original typesetted bars.
I'm also in need of a solution to show alternate fingering. On some phrases, notes will show a set of alternate fingering digits stacked vertically. The student is to repeat the phrase using the upper vs. lower set of fingerings. I can't seem to find any documentation to allow me to typeset these stacked digits in lilypond.
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Thanks so much for your advice.
Javier Ruiz
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