On 4-Feb-07, at 1:06 AM, Carl Dershem wrote:
Has anyone any experience creating a function staff style for a 4-
bar repeat symbol? I know it muct be possible, but
Sorry to respond only in the negative, but I always changed the 4
bars to blank notation and added the 4-bar repeat as a measure-
attached expression (only on this staff.)
A few points to consider:
The expression can be made auto-positioning, so it becomes a one-
click deal (well, actually just very few clicks.)
There is no standard for 4-bar repeats, in fact all authorities
reject them. (This doesn't stop me from using them anyway when they
are clearer than the alternative!) People sometimes attach them over
the middle barline of TWO measures, instead of four. I consider that
having FOUR measures clearly visible is an extremely important cue,
whereas it is contradictory to have only TWO measures visible when it
is supposed to be a four-measure repeat. But then if you have more
than one (and let's face it, if you were only going to use ONE four-
bar repeat, you would be better off just writing out the passage
again!) it become hard to be clear about where the repeated measures
start and end. For example, if you had two of them on a single system
(not out of the question if the issue is saving space), you would be
faced with EIGHT measures, all of them blank, with the 4-measure
repeat straddling the 2nd and 3rd measures and the 6th and 7th
measures. I would love to put in a heavy barline or something to
separate them, but there is no precedent. Maybe a horizontal bracket,
bracketting the four measures? Or else just ONLY ever put them alone
on a system, which again is not recommended by any authority.
That being said, I think it might be possible to make the four
measures into a multimeasure rest, then edit it so that the
horizontal beam is actually the 4-measure repeat symbol (only
available TTBOMK in the JazzFont.) This will look like one measure,
not even two or four, as you will be missing the barlines, but you
could add in a middle barline manually so that at least it looks like
two measures. I don't recommend this solution, for the reasons I
stated before.
Christopher
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