Re: Define nr of measures per system

[Urs Liska]

Am 07.03.2018 um 08:02 schrieb Brian Barker:
> At 18:16 06/03/2018 +0100, Omri Abram wrote:
> > Another beginner question, but can't seem to find the answer in the 
> > documentation: is it possible to define a constant number of measures 
> > per staff system?
>
> The Notation Reference (at 4.3.1) suggests:
>
> For line breaks at regular intervals use \break separated by skips and 
> repeated with \repeat.
> For example, this would cause the following 28 measures (assuming 4/4 
> time) to be broken every 4 measures, and only there:
> <<
>   \repeat unfold 7 {
>     s1 \noBreak s1 \noBreak
>     s1 \noBreak s1 \break
>   }
>   { the actual music... }
> >>

The caveat here is that all measures have to have the same length, so 
time signature changes have to be coded manually.
Worse: if there should be any changes after the fact they have to 
manually be added to that breaking layer too.

Urs

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