Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-25 Thread Karl Husum
Brilliant Simon!  And why would I need to hide a bar full of entries? In improv pieces I often write all the material out sequencial in a score. Then I choose what materiel the different players should use, and I hide the rest of the bars. That way I can have one score a piece, and the

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-24 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 24.10.2015 um 16:06 schrieb Karl Husum: That did the trick, thank you! :-) , but how do you hide a complete bar in lilypond? Of course one could do something like the following, but why would you want that? Please let us know about your use case, maybe there is a much simpler solution

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-24 Thread Karl Husum
{ c1\mp\<\fermata \bar ":|."| %16 \break r1\! | %17 } Bar 16 is the last bar of my piece. I have added an ekstra bar and ended the crescendo on the first beat on that. My intention is to hide the ekstra bar to get the crescendo as i want. Thank you :-)

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-24 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 24.10.2015 um 15:17 schrieb Karl Husum: I want to hide the bar, not the barline :-) I am trying to put the end of the crescendo on an ekstra bar in the piece, and then hide it. Not sure if it the most elegant solution, but it should mbe possible. You can have a last bar of zero length:

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-24 Thread Karl Husum
That did the trick, thank you! :-) , but how do you hide a complete bar in lilypond? -Karl Den 24-10-2015 kl. 14:57 skrev Malte Meyn: Am 24.10.2015 um 15:17 schrieb Karl Husum: I want to hide the bar, not the barline :-) I am trying to put the end of the crescendo on an ekstra bar in the

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-24 Thread Robert Schmaus
It's still not completely clear what you're trying to achive, at least to me. If you want to hide a complete bar with notes and stuff in it, you'll have to explicitly hide everything that's in it. But that doesn't really make sense. If you want to have an empty space within a given staff, you

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-24 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Karl, > That did the trick, thank you! :-) , but how do you hide a complete bar in > lilypond? For what reason [other than the one already solved] do you want to hide a complete measure? Thanks, Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website:

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hello Karl, welcome to the list! On 24.10.2015 14:35, Karl Husum wrote: How do you hide bars in Lilypond, There’s a really nice command for that: ‘\hide BarLine’ :-) that is make them invisible? \hide does typeset the grob, but invisibly, and thus still reserves space; you might also

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.10.2015 15:17, Karl Husum wrote: Thank you for your help :-) I want to hide the bar, not the barline :-) I am trying to put the end of the crescendo on an ekstra bar in the piece, and then hide it. I don’t quite get what you’re trying to achieve here. Can you give an image example, or

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-24 Thread Karl Husum
Thank you for your help :-) I want to hide the bar, not the barline :-) I am trying to put the end of the crescendo on an ekstra bar in the piece, and then hide it. Not sure if it the most elegant solution, but it should mbe possible. Thank you Karl Den 24-10-2015 kl. 13:54 skrev Simon

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-24 Thread Noeck
Hi Karl, perhaps I just don't get your point. But sometimes it helps if you don't insist on a particular way of solving a problem but rather describe the problem/the goal and be open for the best solution. A bar is not an object on itself but it is there because there is music between two points

Re: Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-24 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.10.2015 15:25, Karl Husum wrote: { c1\mp\<\fermata \bar ":|."| %16 \break r1\! | %17 } The easiest way is using an empty chord <> to attach the \!. It has no duration, so you can just insert it before or after the \bar command: {

Hiding bars and crescendo on last bar of a piece

2015-10-24 Thread Karl Husum
Dear Lilyponders How do you hide bars in Lilypond, that is make them invisible? And how do you end a crescendo on a whole note when it is the last note of a piece? Thank you :-) Karl ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org