Re: Learning LilyPond, comments invited

[Alex Loomis]

From what I've seen, \cadenzaOn seems to be the preferred way of writing 
unmeasured music.



On Jan 3, 2014, at 3:14 AM, Colin Tennyson <address@hidden> wrote:

> Carl Sorensen-3 wrote
>> Your music has some durations that cross bar lines.  These durations mess
>> up the bar checks.  Is there a reason you don't separate them into tied
>> groups so there are bar line breaks?
> 
> 
> Ah, let me explain.
> 
> The composer, Philippe Verdelot, lived somewhere around 1500, and back then
> they didn't use bar lines yet.
> 
> Please consult the following entry from the LilyPond documentation:
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/working-with-ancient-music_002d_002dscenarios-and-solutions#mensurstriche-layout
> 
> It's a compromise. The ancient notation isn't copied, but some
> characteristics are allowed to shine through, particularly the fact that
> renaissance music has no concept of measures.
> 
> That poses a challenge, of course. Can the music typesetting software handle
> that requirement? It may be, I don't know, that graphically oriented
> software is rigidly dependent on bar checks at _every_ bar. 
> 
> The LilyPond developers are aware of all this, of course. LilyPond must be
> able to reproduce a wide range of typesetting styles.
> 
> 
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