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

[Mark Knoop]

At 15:45 on 15 Nov 2020, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote:
> 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?

Yes, in scores (and often also in parts) for film score sessions. The idea 
being it's ridiculously fast to find any given starting point.

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Mark Knoop