Re: Displaying the first bar number

[Erik Sandberg]

On Thursday 29 September 2005 22.38, Daniel Johnson wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> Because I am typesetting a fragment of a larger work, I would like to
> display the bar number on the first line.  By default Lilypond does not
> do so, but begins displaying it on line 2.  In ly/engraver-init.ly, we
> encounter the following line:
>     barNumberVisibility = #default-bar-number-visibility
> and in scm/output-lib.scm we see this:
>     (define-public (default-bar-number-visibility barnum) (> barnum 1))
> So, it seemed like I should be able to do the following:
>     \set Score.barNumberVisibility = ##t
> but this has no effect.  I also tried this:
>     #(define-public (default-bar-number-visibility barnum) (#t))
> but, as expected, it didn't work either.

You can look at the tips&tricks, grep for barNumberVisibility.

-- 
Erik