> On 6 Jan 2026, at 00:55, Dan Eble <[email protected]> wrote: > > Would anyone here who teaches music in the English language encourage me to > rename the NR node "Compound time signatures"? (Find it under > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#polymetric-notation > .) > > What I remember being taught is that "compound" refers to meters with triplet > subdivision, such as 6/8, 9/8, 12/8. Calling the time signatures in that NR > section "complex" would make more sense to me, but I'm willing to be directed.
In Bulgarian music, they are called “mixed” (смесено), and from what I can see from net searches, the term is in use in English, too. > The \compoundMeter command is in the same situation, but since \time was > recently made capable of doing everything that \compoundMeter can do, > converting \compoundMeter into a mere syntactic simplification of \time, I > propose renaming \compoundMeter to \timeAbbr. > > To clarify for those who haven't been following 2.25 development, these now > construct the same music expression: > > \compoundMeter #'((2 3 8) (3 4)) > \time #'(((2 3) . 8) (3 . 4)) Perhaps it should be deprecated, meaning that it remains for now, but may be removed in the future. It seems simpler to just use \time.
