Re: Using \partial with TACET

[David Kastrup]

"N. Andrew Walsh" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi List,
>
> I'm working on a collection of masses, which I've broken up into a tree of
> files: each mass is in its own directory, with separate files for each
> movement and a master file listing all the \includes. There are also now
> separate files for each movement's \score block, so I can have different
> layout options per movement (this also seems necessary if I want each
> \music block to be contained in a differently-named variable to call up
> later when making the parts).
>
> Here's my issue: in the last mass, the tympani part is tacet. I want the
> Tympani to show up in the score in the first system only; but in the part,
> I would like to have the \header block for that mass over a \markup
> declaring TACET in big block letters (potentially over a compressed
> rest-bar). I can do this for simple movements, but now I have one with a)
> an 8th-note pickup, and b) a meter change in the middle. If I have the
> following in the Tympani variable:
>
> VITympanoMusic = \new Voice \relative c {
>   \clef bass
>   \partial 8 r8 | R2*54^\markup { \center-align TACET }
>   R2.*29^\markup { \center-align TACET }
> }
>
> Lily throws a barcheck failure (but looks fine in the score). Is there a
> better way to do this? am I doing something wrong here, or is this a bug
> with Lily herself?

I don't see any meter change.  I don't see a minimal example one could
compile.  I don't even see a version number.

How do you suppose anybody is going to analyze your problem without
knowledge about the actual corresponding LilyPond file and the actual
corresponding LilyPond binary?

-- 
David Kastrup