At 21:16 on 06 Nov 2018, Andrew Bernard wrote: >Answering my own question, this simple approach works: > > \time 5/4 > \set Timing.measureLength = #(ly:make-moment 1/4) > >I'm happy to make the thincker barlines manually, unless anybody has >some clever special engraver ideas.
Try something like this: \version "2.19.21" barSigs = #(define-music-function (numbars timesig) (number? fraction?) (_i "make empty bars") (let* ((tsnumerator (car timesig)) (tsdenominator (cdr timesig)) (dotbeats (- tsnumerator 1))) #{ \time #timesig \repeat unfold #numbars { \repeat unfold #dotbeats { s4 \bar "|" } s4 \bar "." } #})) { << { % this is your global variable \barSigs 3 5/4 % 3 bars of 5/4 \barSigs 1 3/4 % 1 bar of 3/4 } { % this is your music \repeat unfold 18 c'4 } >> } -- Mark Knoop _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user