2013/11/2 Gilberto Agostinho <[email protected]>: > Hello all, > > Today, while searching for scores at Mutopia, I came across this one > produced in LilyPond 2.9.9: > > http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BachJS/BWV849/bwv849b/bwv849b-a4.pdf > http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BachJS/BWV849/bwv849b/bwv849b.ly > > What intrigued me here is the position of the bar numbers. [....] > So my question(s) is(are): why there was a change in the bar number position > between these two LilyPond versions? And why the decision of having them to > the left and not to the right of this vertical line? Does anyone know if > there is any standards related to this?
I don't know what was the reason for the change, but... 2013/11/10 Gilberto Agostinho <[email protected]>: > Now compare LilyPond's default output of bar numbers with these examples > from "our own" Essay ( > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/essay-big-page ): > > Bach's Cello Suite, Bärenreiter BA 320, ©1950: > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/pictures/baer-suite1-fullpage.png > > Bach's Cello Suite, Henle no. 666, ©2000: > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/pictures/henle-suite1-fullpage.png > > Bach’s Fugue in G minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 861, > Bärenreiter BA5070 (Neue Ausgabe Sämtlicher Werke, Serie V, Band 6.1, 1989): > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/pictures/bwv861-baer-small.png ...i believe the barnumbers in the engraved examples interfere with clefs. I've seen some scores where similarly placed barnumbers looked like clef transposition (especially when the first bar in a system was 8th or 15th, and the number was placed right above the clef...). I believe that LilyPond's placement has the advantage of being unambiguous. best, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
