Automatic fixing of note between measures

2014-09-18 Thread Jay Vara
Sometimes a note in my (generated) music falls on the bar lines. Is there a way to auto fix it by splitting the note as per the measure and joining the two parts with a tie? In the following, the first line shows that there are five quarter notes in the first measure rather than 4. The second

Re: Automatic fixing of note between measures

2014-09-18 Thread Malte Meyn
Yes, there is the Completion_heads_engraver. I don’t remember exactly how to use it, but you’ll find it in the manuals. Am 18.09.2014 um 17:06 schrieb Jay Vara: Sometimes a note in my (generated) music falls on the bar lines. Is there a way to auto fix it by splitting the note as per the

Re: Automatic fixing of note between measures

2014-09-18 Thread Malte Meyn
I found it in one of my own scores: \layout { \context { \Voice \remove Note_heads_engraver \remove Rest_engraver \consists Completion_heads_engraver \consists Completion_rest_engraver } } Am 18.09.2014 um 18:25 schrieb Malte Meyn: Yes, there is the

Re: Automatic fixing of note between measures

2014-09-18 Thread David Bellows
The project I'm working on right now also automatically generates music and I ran into the same problem. Here's what my software automatically generates now to deal with it: \score { \new PianoStaff \new Staff = upper \new Voice = first \with {\remove Note_heads_engraver \consists

Re: Automatic fixing of note between measures

2014-09-18 Thread Jay Vara
Nice, that works. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Automatic fixing of note between measures

2014-09-18 Thread Jay Vara
David, That works. Malte also suggested something similar. Is there a reason not to use Completion_heads_engraver all the time or atleast as a default? I am also using a compound metre. Hopefully this will work with that. In one case I have repeating measures of 5/4 + 3/4 + 2/4. I have

Re: Automatic fixing of note between measures

2014-09-18 Thread David Bellows
Is there a reason not to use Completion_heads_engraver all the time or atleast as a default? I think the expectation is that most composers most of the time do not want notes split up automatically as it probably means a mistake was made when entering the notes. Basically they'll split when they