On Thu 03 Nov 2016 at 17:13:14 (-0700), mclaren wrote: > I have an even more diabolical question, related to the one at the start of > this thread. > > But let me first answer the original question, which was: "Is there a way to > implement a non-binary time signature like 4 + 1/3?" I think I know a way to > do this. > > This seems like an entirely valid question. 1/3 would be a single triplet > note, right? That is, if we're dealing with (4 + 1/3)/4, then what we want > is 4 quarter notes + 1 triplet quarter note, correct? In that case, can't > we get the same effect by doing [X number of triplets equivalent to 4 > quarter notes] + 1 triplet quarter note? > > The number of triplet quarter notes = 4 quarter note is of course 12, > therefore the total is 12 + 1 triplet quarter notes, and therefore the time > signature should be 13/3.
Um, I'm trying to find the difference between that and http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-10/msg00586.html Why do you have a denominator of "3". Why not 13/2 or 13/4 or 13/8 or 13/16? > And here's an example of the score output on imgur: > http://imgur.com/a/cSyML To me, that looks like http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-10/msg00584.html except that you've suppressed the "a a" following the barline check which Joram didn't bother to do. That's the first thing you do (and I did). http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-11/msg00074.html Then you look at it again and realise that those number "3"s that pepper the score are inappropriate as there isn't 3 of anything. The obvious thing to do is to change to the ratio annotation, as in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-11/msg00083.html > Now here's my even more diabolical question: > How do you get Lilypond to do a meter and print barlines properly on a time > signature like > 4 + (square root of 3)? And get valid page breaks? I dpn't know. This seems to have more to do with mathematics than any music I enjoy performing or listening to. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user