Bar numbering... is there a better way?

[KenEllinwood]

Hi,

I've just discovered MMA.  It looks very promising, nice work.

I have a question....

I'm sitting in front of my favorite fake book entering the chords to a song.  I've managed to get all the way down the page and realized that I forgot to enter bars 7-12.  In other words, I have to go back and insert 6 more bars near the beginning, and I'm wondering how the bar numbering can be handled to avoid having to manually re-number all bars after the insertion point.   Thanks,

Ken

Tempo 118
Groove EasySwing1

// Intro
1 F
2 Bbm7
3 Eb
4 Ddim7
5 C / Bdim7 /
6 C

// Somehow missed 6 bars here, doh!

7 Fm
8 Fm
9 Ab7sus
10 Db
11 C7sus
12 Fm
13 Fm C+
14 Fm7 / Fm6 /
15 DbM7/F
...

[bvdp]

Several issues here:

-- You don't need bar numbers at all. They are just comments. So, you can have something like:

1 Cm
2 /
   Dm
   /
3 C
99 G

-- Bar numbers don't need to be in order. Example:

1 C
3 /
2 /
99 /
5 D

will work just fine. But, the order will not be as indicated above. The order will be sequential. MMA pays no attention to the numbers.

-- Bar numbers are comments for your use. Makes life easier when you have a problem!

-- included in the distro in the utils directory is the program mma-renum. It'll put any bar numbering into the correct order.

-- getting back to the original question, to insert some bars just use any number (I use 0 to show that it's an insertion) and then run the source though mma-renum.

Hope this helps.

[KenEllinwood]

Yes, that helps a lot.  Thanks,

Ken