Re: Bar numbers on lines beginning with a partial measure

[Jean Abou Samra]

> Le 6 févr. 2022 à 11:54, Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> a écrit :
> 
> Thus I think this would be a sensible default. Is there any good reason 
> against using this by default?



I wondered about that as well when I split the barNumberVisibility test and 
submitted the pending MR to no longer require \bar "" for printing the first 
bar number; but these were already deep frames in a stack of changes, so I 
decided not to look into it for the time being. You are welcome to do so. I 
seem to recall there is an open issue that more or less encompasses this 
problem (can't search the URL on a phone). The thing is, these options were 
added as options in the first place, so a reason not to have it at the default 
might have been found at the time. Before proposing a change to the default, 
I'd dig in code history to read the commit messages and code reviews of the 
patches that added these options.

Regards,
Jean