Will Turner <williamat2...@gmail.com> writes:
> I imported a Musicxml file of a hymn. The first measure is a pickup measure
> but it imports as a full measure 3/4 with only a quarter note in it. You
> can see that the measure appears to contain room for 3 beats instead of
> one. When I play this in Musescore, it plays as a pickup measure, and the
> measure doesn't have all that space in it.
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> Using \partial 4 on the first measure, I'm trying to make the existing
> first measure look like a pickup measure and, if possible, actually be a
> pickup measure. The result I get looks like this. It redistributes the
> other measures and the end of every line is now a pickup measure. How do I
> make only the first measure a pickup measure?
>
> [image: image.png]
I suspect you write something like
{ \time 3/4 c'4 \partial 4 ...
when you would need to write
{ \time 3/4 \partial 4 c'4 ...
Namely, you need to write \partial 4 _before_ the partial measure, not
after it.
--
David Kastrup
