\version "2.27.1"
When I started this thread I thought there had been a straight-forward
solution in the past.
Even though I had a career as a programmer, my Scheme skills are still
lacking. These two solutions are not that clear to me.
I have an idea for a higher-level solution but first I need to know the
syntax for setting start-from as documented in Internals Reference
3.1.85 MeasureCounter.
Where in the Lilypond documentation can I learn more about using the
internals?
Thank you,
Paul
On 6/24/26 6:04 AM, Mark Knoop wrote:
At 08:30 on 24 Jun 2026, Gabriel Ellsworth wrote:
Paul, I thought of one possible approach.
On Mon, 22 Jun 2026, Paul Scott wrote:
How can I get measure count every 4 (or any different
interval) bars?
On Tue, 23 Jun 2026, Paul Scott wrote:
I think I found the section that you are citing:
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.27/Documentation/notation/bars#measure-counts
I have never used measure counts myself, but I imagine
that someone with experience has an answer to your
question!
I am rewriting some parts to a piece that has some
instruments playing a repeated pattern over 14 measures.
The measure counts help the players keep track of where
they are.
Here’s my “solution.” I put that word in (curly
<https://practicaltypography.com/straight-and-curly-quotes.html>)
quotation marks because this is very much a manual hack.
What I am doing below is removing the MeasureCounter
stencil surgically. Please see the following
documentation: 36.7.1 Removing the stencil
<https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.27/Documentation/notation/visibility-of-objects#removing-the-stencil>
.
You might be better overriding MeasureCounter.text with a new function based on
the original measure-counter::text:
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/blob/master/scm/output-lib.scm#L2356
Just include a modulo check on left-number-text and return an empty string if
you don't want to print that number.
