> When I enter music with a sequence of durations that don't add up to a
> bar (in any meter), the bar-lines are placed incorrectly.
> Does lilypond not adjust the rhythmvalues to fit the
> barlines(automatically place the barline in the middle of the note so
> that the note will "slur" into the next bar)?
Lilypond keeps counting the beats and inserts bar lines according
to the time signature. If the bar line is in the middle of a
note duration, it will consider the note hanging into the next
bar. If you want the notation to show two note heads with a slur,
you have to specify that explicitly.
If you add a '|' in the input, Lilypond will begin the next bar
at that position.
> Also, the barlines sometimes "overwrite" notestems.
Could you please provide an example.
> Can I get rid of the barlines altogether?
There are several possibilities. If you say \cadenzaOn,
Lilypond will stop counting the bar length and only insert
bar lines were you specify them explicitly. \cadenzaOff will
start a new bar and change back to normal bar lines.
Setting the property Score.barNonAuto = ##t will also turn
off printing the bar lines but Lilypond will keep count of the
beats. The disadvantage of both these solutions is that Lilypond
can only do line breaks at bar lines, so you have to insert
explicit bar lines were you want a line break.
The third alternative which doesn't have this disadvantage is
to set the property Score.defaultBarType = "empty". Then,
Lilypond will typeset bar lines as usual, enabling line breaks,
but the bar lines will be invisible. If you want to enable
line breaks anywhere, you could also set the property
\property Score.barAlways = ##t
You will get a lot of warnings about Unknown bar glyph: `empty'
but that's harmless.
/Mats
