Re: First Measure bar

[VSD]

Jazz scores often print starting repeats. I really don't care too much if  
this is standard or not. It's just more readable to me and the musicians I  
use to work with (I don't use it for "classical" music though).

Since the trick below works easily, I don't see the need for such change.

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:07:28 +0200, Mats Bengtsson  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> I hope you have a good reason to deviate from standard music typesetting
> practice. As far as I can see, it's hard-coded into LilyPond to not  
> typeset
> the opening repeat at the beginning of a piece, but if there is a general
> need for such an option, it should be easy to make this configurable.
>
>    /Mats
>
> VSD wrote:
>
> > I have the same problem. I don't know if lilypond can do that, but I  
> > use  the following cheap trick:
> >
> >
> > {
> >     \time 4/4
> >
> >     \partial 128 s128 % create an empty tiny partial measure before  
> > the  repeat
> >
> >     \repeat volta 2
> >     {
> >         c''2
> >         c''
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > which works form me. I'd recommend you to use raggedright=##t in the   
> > layout for a single bar score though.