Re: Issue 146 in lilypond: bar counters for normal bars

[Phil Holmes]

"Alexander Kobel" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> On 2010-11-19 15:37, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > <address@hidden> wrote in message
> > > Comment #5 on issue 146 by lemzwerg: bar counters for normal bars
> > > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=146
> > >
> > > It's simply not implemented yet. Someone has to add a RepeatCounter
> > > grob (in analogy to PercentRepeatCounter).
> >
> > I'm struggling to understand the difference between what's requested in
> > 146 and what is delivered with the current LilyPond implementation of
> > bar/measure numbers.
>
> Hi, Phil,
>
> see e.g. <http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=651>.  Which is sort of a 
> really, really nasty workaround to implement them; I have a vague idea 
> about making it only singly-really nasty, and adopting it for better 
> spacing, but I won't deal with it before 2.14. is there.  Even then, it'll 
> be far from an easy-to-use solution.
> The bar counters are stand-alone staff-like thingies which can be printed 
> at an arbitrary position of the score (above, below, or even in between 
> for large scores).  The bar numbers should be centered between bar lines, 
> and typically the font much more "present" or dominant than for measure 
> numbers.  I think they are primarily intended for conductor's scores.
> (Note this is what I feel bar counters should look like, and it's similar 
> to what Werner implemented in the much simpler 
> <http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=473>.  For a proper enhancement, we 
> should have a look in some notation guidebook.)

Thanks for the explanation - that has clarified it for me.  I think we can 
summarise by saying that a bar counter is the same as a bar number, but in a 
different place - above the relevant measure, rather than above the bar 
line.



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Phil Holmes
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