As a personal exercise I am attempting to reproduce a printed score from an ex-teacher. I have encountered a few difficulties for which I would appreciate suggestions.
Notes have an explicit accidental even for natural (similar to the dodecaphonic accidentals style), but only for their first use in each measure (this is actually a style I have seen in other places too, for example a Xenakis String quartet I was studying). I looked at the scheme code for defining accidental styles (I have programmed in scheme before), but I figured I would ask here for tips or on the off chance someone has already defined this before attempting to define a new accidental style. Of course I can continue using ! to force naturals as appropriate, so this is a low priority issue (more an annoyance in a large score than anything else). I am having problems with a single measure in 8/6 time. Lilypond complains that it is a strange time signature (which it indeed is), and I cannot get a bar check to work properly (I am doing bar checks for every measure and bar number checks for each numbered bar to help make sure I am following the written score). In other cases where the bar check did not work (where a "whole note" rest meant a whole measure regardless of measure length, or a measure had a missing beat) I would use s (invisible notes) in order to duplicate the appearance of the original score (never sure whether the issue was an error or an idiom /experiment of some sort that is unfamiliar to me). Is there a way to do 8/6 without nesting it in \cadenzaOn and \cadenzaOff commands? Relatedly, there is a rest notated as a half rest with the number 5 above it and the number 6 below it, which seems from context does indeed seem to be a rest of 5 "6th notes" - I am assuming I just need to directly tell lilypond to display the symbols using markup commands and use either candenza or s invisible notes to make the measure work? If I had written the score I would have just done a tempo change (which seems much more sane), but I am attempting to recreate an existing document. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user