> Hi everyone,
>
> I was playing with spacer rests for a multi-part,
partially-blank score, and
> it occurred to me to put them in every unfinished
staff until the empty
> measures “catch up” with the one staff that is
already finished. Like this:
>
> • Shinobue (Japanese flute) part consists of 30
measures, for the time
> being.
> • Shime-, Kumi- and Oo-daiko parts (all Japanese
drums) are either mostly or
> completely empty.
>
> I'd like to save a pdf with all the still-unwritten
drum measures as blanks,
> so that I can doodle on them on an iPad or any
other tablet, or even paper
> (not the most eco-friendly solution, so nope). This
is pretty easy since I
> know the number of measures I've already written,
but updating the remaining
> number in the s1*XX statement all the time is very
annoying. Especially when
> I forget to, upon adding music, which makes the
spacer rests overflow the
> end of the score.
>
> Now on to the point: is there a way to ask Lilypond
itself to kindly
> calculate the remaining measures and decide how
many whole spacer rests to
> put in each distinct staff?
>
> I think what I'm trying to say here is... Is there
a way to say “Hey
> Lilypond, no matter how many measures have already
been written on the
> shime-daiko staff, whether 0 or 29, you just make
sure to put spacer rests
> up until there are 30 measures”? Then I can change
that number much less
> often than every time I run the typesetting command
for every single new
> measure.
>
> Or is this just plain lazy of me to even think of
such a feature? :(
>
> Thanks in advance for all the support. I sometimes
come here just to read
> the topics, and solutions posted here often inspire
me. <3
>
>
>
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