I have an issue where working with lilypond I annotate bars of music in the source
by appending the comment char ‘%’ with the number corresponding to the bar in the score.
However as I work through the material often adding or removing bars the entire set
of “markers” becomes typically becomes offset, requiring me to individual traverse
the lines and correct them.
I would like to find a way to quickly augment or decrease a set of the “markers” with
a keystroke or by command or by function of lines that are highlighted within visual mode.
Here is an example:
clef "bass" numericTimeSignaturetime 4/4 key es major
transposition c | % 1
R1
repeat volta 2 { | % 2
as4. as'16 as16 as4.
d,16 c16 | % 3
bes4 c8 as4 r4 es16
f16 | % 4
g4. d4 g4. | % 5
as1 | % 6
}
as8 as8 r8 as8 8 8 r8 8 | % 7
as8 as8 r8 as8 8 8 r8 8 | % 8
g4. d4 g4. | aes1
as,8 as8 8 as8 8 8 8 8 | % 7
as8 as8 8 as8 8 8 8 8 | % 8
You can see that ‘% 1’ doesn’t correspond to the first bar.¹ How would I increase it along with all the other markers.
1: If you
are looking at the content of the next bar as the first bar, the way that
you would see the bar number on the staff, however I read it, ‘| % 1’, as saying “end of bar 1”.