On 10/11/19, 6:58 AM, "David Kastrup" <[email protected]> wrote:
"N. Andrew Walsh" <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi fff,
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 2:25 PM foxfanfare <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The traditional behavior is to not count a partial measure in the total,
so
>> yes it should be counted as "0". If you want to count it, you should just
>> add \set Score.currentBarNumber = #2 before your first measure.
>>
>
> huh. That's odd. For some reason I always counted pickup measures as bar 1
> in my scores. Far out. OK, thanks for clarifying.
You can repeat an 8-bar (say) phrase seamlessly even with pickup since
pickup and last measure (usually) add up to one complete bar. Giving
both pickup and last measure a number of its own would be detrimental to
this kind of reckoning.
Based on the location of the number, and seeing how standard engraving practice
works, I have just used the mental model that the number is not a measure
number, but a bar number, and it numbers the bar line, with the measure
following the bar line.
Hence, in terms of timing, bar number 1 shows up at measure time 0 of the first
measure.
/partial sets measure time to be negative, so /partial notes actually exist
before bar 1.
This works for me. YMMV.
Thanks,
Carl
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