Re: changing rhythmic representation to align 8ths with 4ths

[Kevin Barry]

Hi Bart,

I'm not sure exactly which part of your example you want to be different, but perhaps you need to scale the durations somehow, to make 8ths seem like 4ths or vice versa?

There is some info on how to do that here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/writing-rhythms#scaling-durations

\scaleDurations 2/1 might do what you want.

Kevin

On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 at 09:30, bart deruyter <bart.deruyter@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all,

Working on writing down a renaissance piece, tablature combined with regular notation, I'm stumbling on the rhythm issue.

For example, I have this piece where I've written everything in 2/8, to get the correct rhythmic representation in my renaissance tablature, but I want the modern notation, in 2/4.

So far I got to this:

The tablature can easily be changed to 8ths manually, but the rhythm notation should be in 2/8 to keep the flags correct as in the original. 

The rhythm values are in a separate 'variable', and I already found http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms, 

which led me to experiment like this:

\version "2.23.0"
music = \relative c' {c'4 c c c }
musicTwo = \relative c' {c'8 c c c }
\score {
  <<
  \new Staff {\time 4/4 \music}
  \new Staff {\time 4/8 \musicTwo}
 
  >>
  \layout {
  \context {
    \Score
    \remove "Timing_translator"
    \remove "Default_bar_line_engraver"
  }
  \context {
    \Staff
    \consists "Timing_translator"
    \consists "Default_bar_line_engraver"
  }}
}

But this results in a situation where the 8ths are not lined up as 4ths, which is what I need.

Anyone here who knows how it might be done?

thanks,

Bart

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