Re: measure count every 4 bars

Paul Scott <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:40:22 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/25/26 7:45 AM, Knute Snortum wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 9:16 PM Paul Scott <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>     \version "2.27.1"
>
>     When I started this thread I thought there had been a
>     straight-forward
>     solution in the past.
>
>     Even though I had a career as a programmer, my Scheme skills are
>     still
>     lacking. These two solutions are not that clear to me.
>
>     I have an idea for a higher-level solution but first I need to
>     know the
>     syntax for setting start-from as documented in Internals Reference
>     3.1.85 MeasureCounter.
>
>     Where in the Lilypond documentation can I learn more about using the
>     internals?
>
>
> I think this is a good resource:
>
> https://extending-lilypond.gitlab.io/en/index.html

Thank you, Knute. I will save this.

What I am looking for documentation of is knowing how to set a value for 
something like count-from in the internals reference. (I mistakenly 
wrote start-from above.) I thought I had seen count-from in the NR 2.5.6 
but I can't find it now.

TIA,

Paul