Re: (2 - 3)/4 time signature

[Alberto Simões]

Hello, Jonathan

Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> Alberto Simões wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I am transcribing a music that defines the time signature as
>>
>> (2-3)/4
>>
>> That is, some bars are 2/4, some others are 3/4.
>>
>> While I can change time signature from time to time accordingly with the
>> composer changes, that polutes a lot the music score.
>>
>> Any suggestion on a solution?
>>
>> Thank you
>> Alberto
> 
> Alberto,
> 
> I had some success fiddling with this snippet:
> 
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=554
> 
> But all I could do was get the time signature to print rather badly. The
> size is a bit off and the alignment is terrible.  I don't know whether
> this would help you or not but I'll copy the code.  Of course this
> doesn't do anything to help manage the individual measures in different
> meters.  Does your original score have meter changes or does it just
> change the number of beats per bar without explicitly changing the
> meter?  Anyway here's a go at the time signature.  You can take it from
> here if you like.  :)

Thank you.
I'll try to use it and define bar sizes manually.

Cheers
Alberto

> 
> Jon
> 
> tsMarkup = \markup {
>   \override #'(baseline-skip . 0.5)
>       \column { \center-align \number "(2-3)" \number "4"  }
> }
> 
> \relative c' {
>   \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'default
>   \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #(lambda (grob)
>             (grob-interpret-markup grob tsMarkup))
>   \time 3/4
>   c d e f
> }
> 
> 

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Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
                 Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal