Re: Vertically align bar line in polyphonic music

[David Kastrup]

Marcel Korpel <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Example at http://pastebin.com/1USBkWCH
>
> I am transcribing a 16th-century mass for 4 voices I got the next
> problem: its Kyrie is divided in three parts that are separated by a
> || bar. The last note of each part is a longa (sometimes with a
> fermata) that just fills up the rest of the space until all voices
> pause. In the upper voices I manually expanded the internal measure
> length to fit the longa in one bar (lines 47 and 76). Those voices
> look correctly.
>
> As the two lower voices reach the longa at earlier places, I need to
> fill the leading space with invisible rests ('s', lines 98 and 118).
> In the example the || appears too soon, it needs to be moved to the
> end of the measure. But when I fill up the remaining time with 's1 s1'
> (just after the single one in line 98, another (normal) bar line is
> inserted at the place where the || was. Of course I don't want that
> extra bar line to appear.

16th century mass with full bar lines?

Anyway, you can scale the actual duration of a note with a given optical
duration by doing somthing like

c\longa*7/4

-- 
David Kastrup