Re: Time signature cancellation

[Andrew Bernard]

Hello All,

It's not unusual, just not Common Era period which lilypond principally 
focuses on.

It is not a _cancellation_ or a crossing out. It's as designator of open 
meter. Dorico enables it because people use it and request it, not 
because the Dorico team read it in Gould. Dorico targets a broader 
spectrum than CE period, in particular film scoring and so on.

One example has been given. Do you need more? A quorum? :-)

Here's Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_time_%28music%29

Adding this open meter indication to lilypond would do no harm, surely? 
As with Dorico, don't make it mandatory for open meter, just available 
if required.

Andrew


On 4/06/2023 11:50 pm, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Thanks, but ideally we would like to see a real-world example that
> predates recent notation programs – they probably all try to implement
> the stuff from Gould's book...