Re: Completing the Lilypond puzzle

[Joe Neeman]

I'm afraid I can't help with all of the issues, but I can give you a start:

> -------------------- latest attempt ------------------------------
> \version "2.6.0"
>
> \paper {
> hsize = 21\cm
> vsize = 27.5\cm
> leftmargin = 2\cm
> linewidth = 17\cm
> topmargin = 1\cm
> bottommargin = 0\cm
> printpagenumber = ##f

Not only does this leave the page numbers, it makes the first system on 
odd/even pages start at a different Y-offset. Bug?

<snip>

> \score {
> \new PianoStaff \with {
> % \override TimeSignature #’transparent = ##t
> % defaultBarType = #""
> %% the two lines above cause output generation to fail completely
> %% despite having been suggested by the manual.

You have the wrong kind of apostrophe in the "#'transparent". This 
probably happened if you copy+pasted from a pdf: the pdf files try to 
make the output prettier by substituting a different symbol for 
apostrophes (the issue has come up previously on this list).

> \remove Bar_number_engraver

This is wrong because Bar_number_engraver is part of the Score context, 
not the PianoStaff context. This stuff is pretty complicated, but the 
information is all available in the web documentation. The 
Bar_number_engraver page 
[http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-internals/Bar_005fnumber_005fengraver.html#Bar_005fnumber_005fengraver] 
says which contexts it belongs to. I would suggest turning the layout 
block into
\layout {
indent = 0.0\cm
\context {
\Score
\remove Bar_number_engraver
}
}
to get rid of bar numbers.

Hope that helps a little,
Joe