Hi, I am sorry for not contributing to this thread that I started. I am currently writing (pencil and paper) a saxophone concerto and I am really into it. This is the piece that inspired the 8/4 measures. I have stopped typesetting because I am so focused on the actual music. I feel bad because I could be testing the big measure - \bar "" issue, and I am not.
And I cannot ever imagine composing and typesetting at the same time, I am too old fashioned - 50 years old, cursing all those young whipper-snappers with all their cell phones, expensive coffee, and pointless careers (wait, the pointless career thing is me too). I should start typesetting these big 8/4 measures in October. Craig Bakalian On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 08:27 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > > How about just checking for an empty extent, like in the attached > patch? > > > > That's probably the best option, since it should allow users to take > > advantage of setting X-extent for other barline styles. > > > > extract_grob_set (h, "elements", helts); > > for (vsize k = helts.size (); k--;) > > - if ("" != robust_scm2string > (helts[k]->get_property ("glyph-name"), "")) > > + // Only non-empty bar lines count. > > + if (h->extent (h, X_AXIS).length () > 0) > > return false; > > > > If you're checking the extent of the BreakAlignGroup itself instead > of > > its cause (the BarLine), can't you get rid of the grob set `helts' > > here? > > If there's a \bar "" and a clef in the same place, then the > BreakAlignGroup will have a non-empty extent, but I think we still > want > the column to be loose. > > Joe _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
