Re: Printing bar number 1

[Johan Vromans]

"Dmytro O. Redchuk" <address@hidden> writes:

> > The only thing I'd want to get rid of is the time change indicator at
> > the end of the first staff.
> Time remains unchanged, so, why specify it?

Maybe a little explanation of what I'm trying to achieve.

I play with a pop choir (http://www.xploosion.nl, dutch only). The
music that our director prepares (using Sibelius) focuses on the vocal
parts.

So I re-create the music (Sibelius -> MIDI -> Rosegarden -> LilyPond)
and add the things that are important for me (intro, extro, chords
etc.).

To stay in sync with the the director's score (and the rest of the
choir) I basically want my score to 'restart' after the intro. So the
first bar after the intro is bar number 1, and I would like to have
that explicitly numbered for the sake of clearness. For the same
reason I'd like to have the time sig repeated in that first bar.

In the example, the first 4 bars (filled with rests) simulate the
intro.

  \relative c' {
    R1 * 4 \break
    \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible 1)
    \set Score.currentBarNumber = #1
    \time 4/4
    c1 c c c
    \break
    c1 c c c
    \break
  }


I can get the results that I want by typesetting the intro separately
from the rest of the score, but I use the same source to generate MIDI
tracks and this approach leads to some complications that I'd rather
avoid.

The current approach (as used in the example) is near perfect. But
after working with LilyPond for a while 'near perfection' is not good
enough anymore :).

-- Johan
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