Re: Notation Reference 1.2.3, Unmetered music: cadenza and bars

[Colin Hall]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 09:47:35AM +0100, Federico Bruni wrote:
> 
> Bug Squad
> 
> Perhaps adding a sentence would make this part straightforward to
> people ignorant in music notation as me. Paragraph "Accidental" in
> chapter 1 doesn't say that usually an accidental is valid until the
> end of the bar.
> 
> I would write:
> 
> "Inserting a \bar within a cadenza does not start a new bar, even if
> a bar line is printed. Therefore the accidental - which is usually
> valid until the end of the bar - will still be valid after the bar
> line printed by \bar. If you want to display the alteration, you'll
> have to use reminder accidentals."
> 
> Adding a comment in the example would be a plus:
> 
> @lilypond[verbatim,relative=2,quote]
> c4 d e d
> \cadenzaOn
> cis4 d cis d
> \bar "|"
> % First cis is printed without alteration even if it's after a bar
> cis4 d cis! d
> \cadenzaOff
> \bar "|"
> @end lilypond
> 
> And maybe making all bar numbers visible can be useful even in this example.
> 

Thanks for the doc enhacement request, Federico.

See tracker here:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3078


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Colin Hall