Re: Change number of measures per page globally

[crimsonsunrise]

On June 25, 2018 11:09 AM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:

> Am 24.06.2018 um 19:45 address@hidden:
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> > I looked all over the documentation and couldn't find anything close
> > 
> > to that, other than manually inserting page breaks on each part that
> > 
> > composes a score, which is time comsuming and...I don't want every
> > 
> > single staff to have the same number of measures per line, as some of
> > 
> > those will have several multi bar rests, for example.
> 
> One more alternative, with more convenience but also more dependencies,
> 
> is using the openLilyLib package edition-engraver
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> (https://github.com/openlilylib/edition-engraver) which lets you inject
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> (line/page) breaks "externally". A wrapper around this which is
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> specifically designed to address your questions is the openLilyLib
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> package page-layout (https://github.com/openlilylib/page-layout) that
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> lets you directly specify lists of breaks ("break sets"), even multiple
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> sets for different purposes and choose a break set to apply at will.
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> This would require you to download four repositories and make them
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> available by adding their common base directory to the LilyPond search
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> path, which can easily be done in Frescobaldi (but also on the "pure"
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> command line). So depending on your use case it may be overkill, but you
> 
> may also consider it as a general "toolbox investment".
> 
> HTH
> 
> Urs
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The lack of documentation on both how to use and how to set up these tools is 
what puts me off into using them.