Re: RFC: rethink horizontal alignment of mid-staff bar numbers

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Sonntag, den 15.11.2020, 15:13 +0000 schrieb Mark Knoop:
> At 15:08 on 15 Nov 2020, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 15.11.2020, 10:04 -0500 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > This discussion/development/enhancement — which is happening just
> > > after a thread on the FB group about centred measure numbers — has
> > > made me wonder if it’s possible to roll measure-centred measure
> > > numbers into the actual BarNumber code [instead of forcing people to
> > > (ab)use MeasureCounter]…
> > > 
> > > Is there any technical reason the main BarNumber code can’t be
> > > improved to allow users to have bar numbers centred within the
> > > measure?
> > 
> > I think that's a totally different topic and not actually related to
> > positioning the usual bar numbers that are above the bar line in all
> > scores that I ever played from.

Looks like my recollection was wrong here: In most *classical* scores.
The medleys of film music that I played in (hobby) orchestras mostly
use rehearsal marks and / or bar numbers *below* bar lines.

> Measure-centred bar numbers are fairly standard in film scores.

Do you mean the conductor's score? Or maybe the full soundtrack scores
for professionals follow a different style than what I described above?

Jonas

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