Re: Issue 146 in lilypond: bar counters for normal bars

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2010-11-19 15:37, Phil Holmes wrote:
> <address@hidden> wrote in message
> > Comment #5 on issue 146 by lemzwerg: bar counters for normal bars
> > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=146
> >
> > It's simply not implemented yet. Someone has to add a RepeatCounter
> > grob (in analogy to PercentRepeatCounter).
>
> I'm struggling to understand the difference between what's requested in
> 146 and what is delivered with the current LilyPond implementation of
> bar/measure numbers.

Hi, Phil,

see e.g. <http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=651>.  Which is sort of a 
really, really nasty workaround to implement them; I have a vague idea 
about making it only singly-really nasty, and adopting it for better 
spacing, but I won't deal with it before 2.14. is there.  Even then, 
it'll be far from an easy-to-use solution.
The bar counters are stand-alone staff-like thingies which can be 
printed at an arbitrary position of the score (above, below, or even in 
between for large scores).  The bar numbers should be centered between 
bar lines, and typically the font much more "present" or dominant than 
for measure numbers.  I think they are primarily intended for 
conductor's scores.
(Note this is what I feel bar counters should look like, and it's 
similar to what Werner implemented in the much simpler 
<http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=473>.  For a proper enhancement, we 
should have a look in some notation guidebook.)


Cheers,
Alexander