Well, if the convention is to re-start numbering, than I'll go with that.
My exemplar was another mass by the same composer that had consecutive
numbering (but the guy who did the work did a terrible job in other
respects: composing out the figured bass, terrible typesetting, etc.). I
suppose I have no good reason to follow that example.
As for the more fundamental question about why I can't just have the
\include lines inside one master \score block: each of the \included files
is divided up between a set of variables defining the musical content that
look something like this:
ViolinoOneMusic = \new Voice \relative c'' {
c c c c | e d c a |
}
and a \score block at the bottom controlling grouping, layout, and
instrument names:
\score {
<<
\new StaffGroup = "StaffGroup_strings" <<
\new GrandStaff = "GrandStaff_violins" <<
\new Staff = "Staff_violinoI" {
\override Staff.InstrumentName.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
\set Staff.instrumentName = \markup \left-column { \abs-fontsize
#10 \line {Violino I } }
\global \ViolinoOneMusic
}
(etc etc…)
>>
the \global variable is at the top of each included file and controls time
signature overrides, beat divisions, and the like (so that 3/4 is 2 2 2,
not 3 3).
It's somewhat convoluted, but it allows me to keep all the music blocks
next to one another in score order, with nothing else in between to make
part-to-part comparisons difficult. I break every five bars, so I can
usually find parallel measures fairly readily without having to consult the
pdf output.
Anyway, thank you for schooling me on correct bar numbering. I shall
proceed as I was.
Cheers,
A
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Phil Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do you need each file to have its own score block? If you just placed the
> music in the included file and the score blocks in the file that does the
> include, then you could do:
>
> \score {
> \include "file1.ly"
> \include "file2.ly"
> }
>
> You might want a /break between them, but this would give continuous bar
> numbering.
>
> --
> Phil Holmes
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: N. Andrew Walsh
> To: lilypond-user
> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 2:28 PM
> Subject: Continuous numbering across includes
>
>
> Quick question: I'm in the middle of transcribing a mass, which I've split
> into separate files for the separate movements. Is there a way to set the
> measure numbering continuous across them? I've found a couple discussions
> of this as being an intrinsic limitation of Lilypond, that it cannot do
> this automatically (the workaround is to specify the measure number
> explicitly at the start of each file's \score block, which seems clunky).
> Those discussions were all from 5-7 years ago; has any improvement been
> made to this limitation?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> A
>
>
>
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