Re: Standalone bar lines in StaffGroup

[Trevor Bača]

On 7/26/07, Siska Ádám <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I'm engraving a string quartet, and I have the four staffs inside a
> StaffGroup. This is normally good for bar lines, as normally I need
> single barlines that display through the four staves. But there's a
> point where the time signatures differ for every stave, but just for a
> few bars. How can I tell the engine to create separate barlines only for
> that few staves?

The 2.11 manual seems to be offline at the moment. But check 8.4.1
"Polymetric notation" in the 2.10 manual. Should work fine; if not,
post a minimal example that gets as close as you can.



> P.S. If someone knew a solution on how to connect a horizontal line to a
> barline, or better, a solution to how to tell the engine to put the
> first notes of the bars exactly on the barline (as this would solve the
> line problem with some invisible notes on the barline that have
> glissando lines attached), please tell me! (The 'put the first notes of
> the bar exactly on the barline' could also be useful to engrave scores
> that have strict space notation, like Tristan Murail's ones.)

This is possible today using proportional notation. The 2.10 manual
mentions proportional notation only a little; the 2.11 manual (which,
again, is currently offline) treats proportional notation in much
greater detail. Read about that in 2.11 when it's available, and
expect to spend a day or two running examples to learn how the
different proportional notation parameters interact.



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