Re: Problem with bar numbers

[David Kastrup]

Malte Meyn <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 14.03.2017 um 09:11 schrieb Don Gingrich:
>> OK, I'll start by saying that I'm doing some things that
>> are wrong as far as musical purists are concerned,
>> but there *is* a reason.
>> 
>> […]
>> 
>> So it breaks the rules of music theory, but there is
>> a reason.
>
> If I understand correctly: No, it doesn’t break the rules of music
> theory. It’s totally correct (and almost always a must-have!) to have
> the last bar shortened by the length of the anacrusis.
>
>> space  that is unwanted. So I've been using
>> \partial and copping the warnings since it looks 
>> better. (It's just the "programmer" in me that doesn't
>> like code that "compiles" with warnings.)
>
> Maybe you should use a newer (“unstable”/development version); 2.19.xx
> allows \partial after the start of a piece and handles bar numbers
> correctly. The development versions aren’t unstable in the sense that
> they will crash or damage your input files or something similarly bad
> but only that there is a new version every two (?) weeks; of course
> you don’t have to always use the very latest version but only upgrade
> if you want to use new features.

Uh, development versions most certainly _can_ crash and we had several
ones that did under fairly normal circumstances.  Using development
versions you should be prepared to upgrade with some regularity.

-- 
David Kastrup