Hi James, here is how I normaly do it (you can of course wrap this into a definition called "emptyBar" and use rests if you need Midi ouput:
\relative c' {c d e f \hideNotes c d e f \unHideNotes c d e f } -- Orm Am Samstag, den 10. Mai 2014 um 18:43:49 Uhr (+0800) schrieb James Harkins: > I want to create an exercise for some beginning composition > students, where I will provide some short melody fragments sprinkled > through a longer score. Most measures will be empty, but I want > LilyPond to leave enough space for the students to write in their > own notes. I looked in the notation reference at "horizontal > spacing" (which appears to be concerned more with note spacing) and > "breaks" (where I found quite a bit about allowing extra breaks, > which is the opposite of what I want). > > I'm sure it's documented, but 1/ my mental map of the LP > documentation isn't comprehensive enough and 2/ my brain is fried > and I simply can't think of a reasonable search term for this at the > moment. > > I could imagine either: > > - a setting to force a certain number of bars per system, or > > - an override to set the minimum measure width. > > Thanks, > hjh > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user