Re: Cadenza in a Score

[Greg Lindstrom]

\cadenzaOn and \cadenzaOff do exactly what I am looking for; I apologize for not finding those before asking the list.

As far as "turning off" and the other parts, I've decided to put the cadenza in the other parts as a CueVoice. Once I get the score completed I may look at trying to turn the parts off for the cadenza, but it's not a top priority for me.

There is also an "Alternative Ending" to consider, but that's about 32 measures in the future.

I would like to say how much FUN it is to use Lilypond and Frescobaldi. I have friends using expensive commercial packages and I think my results are every bit as beautiful as theirs, if not more so (which may be, in part, of the effort I am putting into crafting the score). And the support on this list is far beyond anything I could have expected.  Thanks to all for your hard work and dedication.

--greg

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 4:36 PM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> wrote:

Hello Greg!

Maybe \RemoveEmptyStaves (or equivalently
\override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-empty = ##t ) would do the trick?

Also suspending bars in case of cadenzas is exactly what \cadenzaOn and
\cadenzaOff are for. But keep in mind that cadenzaOn will prevent automatic
breaking, as no bar lines exists. So you either have no manually insert
\bar ""
Or you could also do
\set Score.defaultBarType = ""
\set Score.barAlways = ##t
For the Cadenza and
\set Score.defaultBarType = "|"
\unset Score.barAlways
After the cadenza.

Cheers,
Valentin