Re: Continuous numbering across includes

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 29.05.2015 um 15:28 schrieb N. Andrew Walsh:
> Quick question: I'm in the middle of transcribing a mass, which I've 
> split into separate files for the separate movements. Is there a way 
> to set the measure numbering continuous across them? I've found a 
> couple discussions of this as being an intrinsic limitation of 
> Lilypond, that it cannot do this automatically (the workaround is to 
> specify the measure number explicitly at the start of each file's 
> \score block, which seems clunky). Those discussions were all from 5-7 
> years ago; has any improvement been made to this limitation?
I’m pretty sure that not. It’s common practice to have independent bar 
numbers for each score in a book and I don’t see any reason to deviate 
from that. However, if you personally like to continue numbering across 
movements, is there any problem with manual setting of measure count? 
After all, it’s a matter of content (with the possible exception of 
mensural transcriptions) and unlikely to change.

Regards, Simon