Re: Big Measures in Large Ensemble

[Mark Polesky]

craigbakalian wrote:
> I have been working on the score, I have been using the
> documentation cited below, and all is working just fine.  I was
> just questioning if anyone has experience in working with large
> measures and looking for a good prototype of how to approach the
> issue.  More of a typesetting question than a lilypond question.
> I must say lilypond (autonomously) is doing very well with the
> big measures with a large ensemble.

Here's one trick you can try. There is a problem, however -- a
slight extra space appears where the invisible fake-barlines
(possible break-points) are. And the obvious way of correcting
that didn't work. I'll ask the other developers if there's a way
to fix that.
- Mark

\version "2.13.3"

\layout {
  % line-width is set just to demonstrate the function.
  line-width = #50
}

% lls = "long-long-short" -- identifiers can't have numbers.
% remove the demo markups (^"3+3+2") once it's clear.
lls = { s2.^"3+3+2" \bar "" s2. \bar "" s2  | }
lsl = { s2.^"3+2+3" \bar "" s2  \bar "" s2. | }
sll = { s2 ^"2+3+3" \bar "" s2. \bar "" s2. | }

possibleBreaks = {
  \lls
  \lsl
  \sll
}

music = {
  \time 8/4
  \repeat unfold 24 c''4
}

\new Voice <<
  \possibleBreaks
  \music
>>

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