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[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Wednesday 31 December 1969 23:59, Chris Jackson wrote:

> Bugreports / alternative ideas welcome.

Why not have a complete change of behavior within \notes
blocks, or within brackets nested within \notes blocks(?) so your .el can be of
more use in the rest of the .ly file? Even an extra set of brackets would be a
small price to pay to have things snap together pretty.

\notes { stuff \clet \etc { e4 d8 }}

I doubt if you would find it necessary though. I think you are doing it the hard
way, that's all. You could have the number of barchecks in
the first line of \notes with a barcheck in it set the number of barchecks in
succeeding lines in that paragraph and indent the whole paragraph. Barchecks
should be at the ends of lines, not the
beginnings, because that's the way it is done in printed music, and
because  the end of the line provides whitespace.

If HW can be persuaded to have lilypond ignore numbers hard after
barchecks, perhaps there could be automatic measure numbers (from
the first in the paragraph) as a feature as well?  Extra space between the
barcheck and the note according to the first barcheck and align where possible
on the basis of the first line in the paragraph?

        e1        |11  e2 e         |12   e4 e e e       |13
        e2 e      |14  e1           |15   e8 e e e e e e e  |16
        e1        |17  e2 e         |18   e4 e e e       |19
        e1

DaveA

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