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Re: Completion_heads_engraver for line-ends only?


From: Jean Abou Samra
Subject: Re: Completion_heads_engraver for line-ends only?
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:56:10 +0100
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Le 17/01/2023 à 18:31, Graham King a écrit :
I'm preparing an edition of de Wert's motet "Ascendente Jesu in naviculam" 
which has an extended stretto section with dotted rhythms across barlines.  For this, 
Harm's Mensurstriche example in the Learning Manual produces a mostly beautiful result.

However, for the sake of those singers who, faced with this passage, find themselves 
<ahem> all at sea, I would like to avoid notes extending across line-breaks.  
The idea is to use something like the Completion_heads_engraver that would take 
effect only at those barlines that coincide with a line break.  Does such a thing 
exist?



I am afraid this would be exceedingly difficult technically.
Engravers run way earlier than line breaking, so the only
option would be to let the engraver create both notations
(with notes straddling over bar lines and with tied notes),
and remove one of them later, but there is a lot of code in
between that is not prepared for ignoring the collisions
that will unavoidably ensue, it would have consequences on
horizontal spacing, etc.

Also, I have to say I would find it confusing as a performer.
In your shoes, I'd go either for modern notation with ties, or
for ancient notation, but not a mixture of both.


As a secondary question: Is there a straightforward way to avoid collisions of 
mensurstriche with beams?


Do you have an example?

Regards,
Jean

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