Re: printing bar numbers on every odd measure

[Lia Zito]

Wow!  It works!  Thank you so much!

I had to put it with the music ( \relative c'' { \set Score. etc)  , not in my 
\layout \context { \Score \set barNumberVisibility etc. block, for some reason, 
but I don't care - it works.  :-D

Lia

On Sep 21, 2010, at 12:31 PM, -Eluze wrote:

> 
> there is also this (quite hidden & undocumented, but working!):
> 
>  \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #end-of-line-invisible
>  \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(modulo-bar-number-visible 2 1 )
> 
> cheers!
> 
> 
> Lia Zito wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm trying to get bar numbers to print on every odd measure: 1,3,5 etc.
>> 
>> The   \set Score.barNumberVisibility =
>> #(first-and-every-nth-bar-number-visible 2) command puts out even numbered
>> bar numbers every time.  I even used the directions on how to print the
>> 1st and every nth bar number (see below) and lilypond reverts right back
>> to even numbers whenever the value is 2 (or 4, etc.).
>> 
>> I tried inserting an invisible measure at the beginning, then resetting
>> the bar number to 1 at the 2nd measure - and that \set
>> Score.barNumberVisibility function went and skipped ahead a measure to
>> display only the even numbers again!  
>> 
>> I tried the barnum music function (see below) even though I don't
>> understand it at all - but it did the same thing. I get 1, 2, 4, 6, etc.  
>> 
>> Does anybody know how to get it to print just the odd numbered bar
>> numbers?  With or without the 1st bar number, that doesn't matter so much,
>> I just want to see 3, 5, 7, 9 etc. on the page.  
>> 
>> I'm using Lilypond 2.12.3-1 with OLy 0.4 and OpenOffice 3.2.1 on OS X
>> 10.6.
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you!
>> 
>> Lia Zito
>> 
>> Here's the email with the directions I tried:  
>> 
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-09/msg00403.html
>> 
>> From:         Trevor Daniels
>> Subject:      Printing first and every n bar numbers
>> Date:         Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:21:54 +0100
>> Valentin
>> 
>> Are these worth a snippet (or two?) for Rhythms?
>> 
>> \relative c'' {
>> % Print the first and every fifth bar numbers
>> \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible 1)
>> \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #all-visible
>> \bar ""
>> c1
>> \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible 5)
>> \repeat unfold 9 { c1 }
>> }
>> 
>> The alternative is Neil's music function:
>> 
>> #(define ((first-and-every-nth-bar-number-visible n) barnum)
>>         (or
>>           (= 1 barnum)
>>           (= 0 (modulo barnum n))))
>> 
>> \relative c'' {
>> \override Score.BarNumber #'break-visibility = #end-of-line-invisible
>> \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(first-and-every-nth-bar-number-visible
>> 5)
>> \bar ""
>> \repeat unfold 10 { c1 }
>> }
>> 
>> Trevor
>> 
>> 
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