Re: Learning LilyPond, comments invited

[Colin Tennyson]

Alex Loomis-2 wrote
> From what I've seen, \cadenzaOn seems to be the preferred way of writing
> unmeasured music.

Well, the availability of "\hide \BarLine" and  "\undo \hide \BarLine" is
relatively recent.
I think I saw a place where it was described in the v2.17 documentation, but
not in the v2.16 documentation


As to \cadenzaOn, from the LilyPond documentation:
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms

"Inserting a \bar command within a cadenza does not start a new measure,
even if a bar line is printed. So any accidentals – which are usually
assumed to remain in force until the end of the measure – will still be
valid after the bar line printed by \bar."

In the case of typesetting renaissance (choral) music you do want the modern
conventions for accidentals. With \cadenzaOn you would lose the automated
handling of accidentals.



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