Re: bar count not displayed after partial measure followed by forced line break

[Brian Barker]

At 17:16 19/02/2022 -0800, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> bar count not displayed after partial measure followed by forced line break
>
> I am engraving some music where there is a partial measure starting 
> the music and later a measure is broken at a line break. To 
> implement this I tried using:
> \bar "||"
> \break
> to display the end of line and then resume on the following line. 
> The completed measure, at the beginning of the line, does not have a 
> bar number displayed. I am using bar checks. Lilypond 2.22.1

I'd find a bare bar number labelling what is an incomplete bar 
confusing. Indeed, Elaine Gould tells me "Place the bar number on the 
new system in parenthesis to show that this is not the beginning of 
the bar" (Behind Bars, p. 490).

The 2.23 Notation Reference says (at 1.2.5 Bars) "_Printing bar 
numbers for broken measures_ By default a BarNumber of a broken 
measure is not repeated at the beginning of the new line. Use 
first-bar-number-invisible-save-broken-bars for barNumberVisibility 
to get a parenthesized BarNumber there." and provides a snippet. I 
don't see the snippet in the 2.22 documentation, but it does work in 
that version.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker