Hi everyone, I was playing with spacer rests for a multi-part, partially-blank score, and it occurred to me to put them in every unfinished staff until the empty measures “catch up” with the one staff that is already finished. Like this:
• Shinobue (Japanese flute) part consists of 30 measures, for the time being. • Shime-, Kumi- and Oo-daiko parts (all Japanese drums) are either mostly or completely empty. I'd like to save a pdf with all the still-unwritten drum measures as blanks, so that I can doodle on them on an iPad or any other tablet, or even paper (not the most eco-friendly solution, so nope). This is pretty easy since I know the number of measures I've already written, but updating the remaining number in the s1*XX statement all the time is very annoying. Especially when I forget to, upon adding music, which makes the spacer rests overflow the end of the score. Now on to the point: is there a way to ask Lilypond itself to kindly calculate the remaining measures and decide how many whole spacer rests to put in each distinct staff? I think what I'm trying to say here is... Is there a way to say “Hey Lilypond, no matter how many measures have already been written on the shime-daiko staff, whether 0 or 29, you just make sure to put spacer rests up until there are 30 measures”? Then I can change that number much less often than every time I run the typesetting command for every single new measure. Or is this just plain lazy of me to even think of such a feature? :( Thanks in advance for all the support. I sometimes come here just to read the topics, and solutions posted here often inspire me. <3 -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Automatic-multimeasure-spacer-rests-tp167387.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
