Re: Automatic multimeasure spacer rests?

[Urs Liska]

I *think* this is what you want to achieve:

write one music variable containing spacer rests for the whole piece (or 
for the longest part that you already have) and then include that on 
each staff. Say:

spacers = {
  s1*20
}

one = {
  \repeat unfold 20 c'1
}

two = {
  \repeat unfold 12 c'1
}

\score {
  <<
    \new Staff <<
      \spacers
      \one
    >>
    \new Staff <<
      \spacers
      \two
    >>
  >>
}


That way the \spacers part keeps the staves alive.

HTH
Urs

Am 10.10.2014 16:22, schrieb ViniWolfling:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was playing with spacer rests for a multi-part, partially-blank score, and
> it occurred to me to put them in every unfinished staff until the empty
> measures “catch up” with the one staff that is already finished. Like this:
>
> • Shinobue (Japanese flute) part consists of 30 measures, for the time
> being.
> • Shime-, Kumi- and Oo-daiko parts (all Japanese drums) are either mostly or
> completely empty.
>
> I'd like to save a pdf with all the still-unwritten drum measures as blanks,
> so that I can doodle on them on an iPad or any other tablet, or even paper
> (not the most eco-friendly solution, so nope). This is pretty easy since I
> know the number of measures I've already written, but updating the remaining
> number in the s1*XX statement all the time is very annoying. Especially when
> I forget to, upon adding music, which makes the spacer rests overflow the
> end of the score.
>
> Now on to the point: is there a way to ask Lilypond itself to kindly
> calculate the remaining measures and decide how many whole spacer rests to
> put in each distinct staff?
>
> I think what I'm trying to say here is... Is there a way to say “Hey
> Lilypond, no matter how many measures have already been written on the
> shime-daiko staff, whether 0 or 29, you just make sure to put spacer rests
> up until there are 30 measures”? Then I can change that number much less
> often than every time I run the typesetting command for every single new
> measure.
>
> Or is this just plain lazy of me to even think of such a feature? :(
>
> Thanks in advance for all the support. I sometimes come here just to read
> the topics, and solutions posted here often inspire me. <3
>
>
>
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