Re: How to auto print empty measures?

[Aaron Hill]

On 2018-12-29 7:59 am, Reggie wrote:
> loll it's literally in the OP title of thread auto print empty just 
> like
> finale and sebelius do when you begin engraving a piece of music. :)) 
> you'll
> see what i am meaning when all is done

Forgive me, but that makes no sense.  LilyPond is not a WYSIWYG-style 
editor.  I am failing to understand how the behavior of those 
graphically-interactive tools matters in the slightest to the output of 
LilyPond.

It has already been shown how to get LilyPond to emit empty measures if 
that is truly desired, so I think any continued discussion needs to be 
focused on *why* this is even an important or useful feature.

What is the point of these empty measures?  That is, to what degree is 
seeing extra staff lines going to help the process of using LilyPond, a 
text-driven tool?

I think LilyPond's current output behavior is ideal, since it very 
precisely renders exactly what you input.  If you provide multiple 
instruments with varying lengths of music, then you will see staves of 
varying lengths.  It is a strong visual indicator of the discrepancy.


-- Aaron Hill