Re: time signature outside repeat bars in bagpipe music

[Mats Bengtsson]

To get a |: printed at the start of the piece, use an
explicit \bar "|:".

To get time signatures before bar lines instead of after,
you can do
\override Score.BreakAlignment #'break-align-orders =
 #(make-vector  3
    '(left-edge
      ambitus
      breathing-sign
      clef
      time-signature
      staff-bar
      key-cancellation
      key-signature
      custos))

To find something on this in the documentation, I afraid
you have to click on
Program Reference -> Backend -> All layout objects ->
BreakAlignment

  /Mats

Graydon wrote:

> In 2.7.10 I used:
>
> [this is the opening measure of "The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar";
> there are bunches of stuff before this invoking default.ly which has
> bagpipe.ly in it, and providing header information.]
>
> {
>  % this is a bagpipe music default
>  \hideKeySignature
>  % set time
>  \time 2/4
>  % set length (in fractional notes) of the partial for any intro notes
>  % gracenotes need to go *before* \partial
>  %\grg \partial 8 c16.[ d32]
>  
>  % \skip = invisible rest; this particular tap dance is to get the opening
>  % repeat bar line to both show up and be to the right of the time signature
>  \partial 32 \skip 32
>
>  \repeat volta 2 {
>    \grg \partial 8 c16.[ d32]
>    % notes go here
>    \grg e8.[ f16] \dble e8[ c8] |
>    \grg a4 \taor a8[ A8] |
>    \hdblf f8[ e16. c32] \grg e16.[ f32 \grg e16. d32] |
>    \dblc c8[ \grg b8] \taor b8[ \grg c16. d32] |
>    \grg e8.[ f16] \dble e8[ c8] |
>    \grg a4 \taor a8[ A8] |
>    \hdblf f8[ e16. c32] \grg e16.[ f32 \grg e16. d32] |
>    \dblc c8[ \gre a8] \wbirl a8 |
>    }
>  \break
> % and the other three measures go here.
>
> In 2.8.1 (on linux), this processes but I get an enormous empty space,
> about 150% of the size of the other bars of music, between the time
> signature and the repeat bar line, with subsequent bad side effects on
> everything else.
>
> This leads me to believe that the kludge I'm using to get the time
> signature to be to the left of the repeat bar line (which is what the
> College of Piping books use, so I conclude it's the approved bagpipe
> music style) is the wrong way to do that.
>
> What's the _right_ way to do that?
>
> Thanks!
> Graydon
>
>
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