Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 81, Issue 42

[craigbakalian]

Hi,

I am sorry for not contributing to this thread that I started.  I am
currently writing (pencil and paper) a saxophone concerto and I am
really into it. This is the piece that inspired the 8/4 measures.  I
have stopped typesetting because I am so focused on the actual music.  I
feel bad because I could be testing the big measure - \bar "" issue, and
I am not.

And I cannot ever imagine composing and typesetting at the same time, I
am too old fashioned - 50 years old, cursing all those young
whipper-snappers with all their cell phones, expensive coffee, and
pointless careers (wait, the pointless career thing is me too).

I should start typesetting these big 8/4 measures in October.

Craig Bakalian


On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 08:27 -0400, address@hidden wrote:

> > > How about just checking for an empty extent, like in the attached
> patch?
> > 
> > That's probably the best option, since it should allow users to take
> > advantage of setting X-extent for other barline styles.
> > 
> >                 extract_grob_set (h, "elements", helts);
> >                 for (vsize k = helts.size (); k--;)
> > -                 if ("" != robust_scm2string
> (helts[k]->get_property ("glyph-name"), ""))
> > +                 // Only non-empty bar lines count.
> > +                 if (h->extent (h, X_AXIS).length () > 0)
> >                     return false;
> > 
> > If you're checking the extent of the BreakAlignGroup itself instead
> of
> > its cause (the BarLine), can't you get rid of the grob set `helts'
> > here?
> 
> If there's a \bar "" and a clef in the same place, then the
> BreakAlignGroup will have a non-empty extent, but I think we still
> want
> the column to be loose.
> 
> Joe