Typesetting exercises with blank space

2014-05-10 Thread 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

Re: Typesetting exercises with blank space

2014-05-10 Thread Orm Finnendahl
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

Re: Typesetting exercises with blank space

2014-05-10 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
2014-05-10 12:43 GMT+02:00 James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com: - a setting to force a certain number of bars per system, or - an override to set the minimum measure width. Try : % \version 2.18.2 { \repeat unfold 3 { % set 3 measures per system :