Re: number of measures per staff

[Xavier Scheuer]

On 23 December 2012 14:56, d paddy <address@hidden> wrote:
> I would like to have four measures per staff (but more generally, how to
> control when to go to the next staff?).
> The following does not work, for two reasons:  First, it inserts a mess of
> empty measures rather than
> putting music in the measures.  Second, it would seem to require that I know
> in advance what argument to
> supply to "unfold", but I am looking for a solution which will simply but
> four measures per staff without the
> necessity of me having to count measures...

Hi,

You might be interested by this recent "measures per system" thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-11/msg00790.html
and especially David's "bars-per-line-systems-per-page-engraver"
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-12/msg00775.html

Cheers,
Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>