Re: suppressing bar numbers at rehearsal marks?

[Paul Scott]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Mark Polesky wrote:
> > The reason for printing the bar numbers makes sense if the
> > rehearsal numbers come every 30 bars or so -- long stretches
> > of music would be without bar numbers, which is unacceptable.
> >   
> Certainly, but I still don't see the point of using boxed/circled bar 
> numbers
> mixed with ordinary bar numbers. As a musician, I would just find it 
> confusing.
> If you want rehearsal marks every 30 bars or so, I would expect to see 
> alphabetic
> rehearsal marks.
In my case I am modifying parts which are already written as well as the 
score in the manner you object to.  I have been too busy getting these 
parts out to ask the same question.
> If you have a good reason to do what you ask for, why not simply 
> define a macro
> which both draws a rehearsal mark and does a \once \override BarNumber 
> #'transparent = ##t
I just gave that a quick test and it didn't seem to eliminate the bar 
numbers.

More later,

Paul Scott