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Re: Prevent automatic bar lines?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Prevent automatic bar lines?
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:00:26 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux)

"address@hidden" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Feb 1, 2012, at 9:13 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> "address@hidden" <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> On Feb 1, 2012, at 7:42 PM, AkselJ wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hey,
>>>> I just started using LilyPond, but I'm having trouble with bar lines being 
>>>> misplaced. I'm certain this is partly due to the fact I write my
>>>> current piece
>>>> in 15/24, and partly due to using triplets with only two
>>>> notes. Anyhow, is there
>>>> any way to prevent LilyPond to insert bar lines?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> --Aksel
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> mm...there is, but LilyPond knows how to handle 15/24 and knows how to
>>> handle triplets with two, twenty, or pi notes.
>> 
>> No, LilyPond can only work with rational durations.
>> 
>
> I meant a computer representation of pi which, as it is a floating
> point number with finite decimal places, can be represented as a
> rational.

The rational would be marked as an exact number within Guile, the
computer representation of pi as an inexact number.  You'll find that
LilyPond requires to work with exact numbers.

-- 
David Kastrup



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