I'm typesetting a score of an unknown orchestral ouverture by
Gade, and I have to send a nice readable copy to the
conductor in a couple of weeks. Before that, I'd very
much appreciate if we could solve the following problems
in Lilypond.
- SkipBars=0 doesn't work. My score contains lots of
multibar rests, which should be written out bar by bar
in the score (where the 'harakiri' mechanism doesn't
remove full staff lines that only contain rests).
In the parts, the multibar rests should be split
by the rehearsal marks I've included every here and
there.
In short, I want the multibar rests to work as they
used to do before pl 20 but preferably with a nice
centered rest symbol.
- Instrument names in the margin. Example:
input/test/hara-kiri.ly. The text should of course
be to the left of the staff lines.
- There is a bug in pl 22. Try /input/test/slurs.ly and
you will find '#.#' instead of real numbers at some
places in the empedded ps code.
- (Annoying but not a bug:) Slurs that are broken at line
breaks often extend too far into the margin, both to the
left and to the right. How do you adjust it?
Another problem that is hard to solve quickly is that the
score takes 2 1/2 hour to process at the moment. 250 bars of
16 voices on 14 staff lines. I should probably invest some more
memory on my PC. The process uses about 60MB and I only have
32 MB physical memory available.
Hopefully, I can make the score publicly available when it's
finished.
/Mats B
