Re: Automatic Accidentals ignore unmetered music

[Peter Leschev]

Hi!

> In metered music, you can have a barline in the middle of a bar (e.g. a 
> thin
> double barline, or a repeat barline). This does not affect the way
> accidentals are typeset.
Ahh, I wasn't aware of this!

> If you want barlines the way you describe, then you probably don't have
> unmetered music, but just irregularly metered music.
True,

> You will probably want
> bar numbers to increase between bars. The only way I can find to do this, 
> is
> to set measureLength individually for each bar, see
> 5.3.9 Time administration
Yeah, this is what I wanted to avoid....

> I think it could be nice to add a command like \newBar to lilypond, which
> would be roughly equivalent to setting measureTiming to measureLength 
> (except
> that this doesn't work). This command should IMHO also be added to
> \cadenzaOff. (i.e., after a cadenza is over, a new bar will start). Any
> opinions?
Good idea, if the developers of this project don't want to include such 
functionality, could we at least get this behaviour documented?

Cheers,
Peter