Re: Layout going screwy

[William Rehwinkel]

I'm reminded of this unfortunate example from an otherwise 
excellently-done edition of the Buxtehude cantata "Membra Jesu Nostri" 
in which the second viola da gamba part is off by a half note (the 
mistake is there is a missing half note d' at the beginning of measure 
20, and there is a mistakenly added note later on so the rest of the 
movement is correct), a mistake which would have instantly been noticed 
if bar checks had been used.

Actually, the engraving files were uploaded to IMSLP, maybe I should fix it.

-William

On 9/4/24 07:37, David Kastrup wrote:
> Raphael Mankin <raph@mankin.org.uk> writes:
>
> > On 04/09/2024 11:15, David Kastrup wrote:
> > > Raphael Mankin <raph@mankin.org.uk> writes:
> > >
> > > > For reasons that not concern us I am  re-typing Cole Porter's Anything
> > > > Goes. I get as far as the key change after bar 20 but then the layout
> > > > goes wild: no bar numbers, line breaks fail, stray bar on the end.
> > > >
> > > > I have checked and double checked this, but I cannot see what is
> > > > wrong. Any help will be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > See attachments
> > > I just placed a bar check | before each of your % Bar xxx comments
> > > (why
> > > keep this important information from LilyPond by hiding it away in a
> > > comment) and got the first bar check warning between those lines:
> > > |  %Bar 11
> > >     r4 g8. a16 b8. a16. g4
> > >     b4 c8 d8~ d4 r4
> > >     c2. g4
> > > |  % Bar14
> > > It's easy to see that the a16. is not matched by anything else
> > > producing
> > > an odd multiple of a 1/32 note.
> >
> > I was looking for those,  but missed that one
> >
> > Thank you. An extra pair of eyes etc..
>
> No extra pair of eyes.  I didn't bother combing through your source code
> manually like you did.  I just added the bar checks where your comments
> already indicated that a bar should be.  As I said: there is no point in
> keeping the bar information from LilyPond since LilyPond is pretty good
> at spotting inconsistencies.
>
> When organisation of the source is important enough to you that you add
> comments like
>
> % Bar14
>
> there is no point whatsoever not to write
>
> | % Bar14 instead
>
> or (as a coding pattern)
>
>         |% 14
>
> If you put the information in the source anyway, give LilyPond a chance
> to utilize it.

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William Rehwinkel (any pronouns)
Juilliard School '26 - Oberlin Conservatory '24
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