Thanks Lukas and everyone! Much obliged.
Brent.
On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 17:28, Vaughan McAlley <vaug...@mcalley.net.au>
wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 14:52, Lukas-Fabian Moser <l...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Brent,
>>
>> Am 24.06.21 um 03:53 schrieb Brent Annable:
>> > Just a quick question: is there any way to display a 4/2 time
>> > signature as cut common? I've tried 4/2, 8/4 and 2/1, but none of them
>> > seem to default to cut common.
>>
>> That's a sufficiently common notation (in Renaissance and faux-archaic
>> music e.g. by later Church composers) that maybe this should be an
>> feature.
>>
>> But it's not hard to force the desired behaviour. I know of two ways
>> (and have no idea if one is better than the other):
>>
>> a) Ask for \time 2/2 and tamper with the measure length.
>> b) Ask for \time 4/2 and tamper with the printed symbol.
>>
>> \version "2.22.1"
>>
>> {
>> \time 2/2
>> \set Timing.measureLength = #(ly:make-moment 4/2)
>> c'2 2 2 2
>> }
>>
>> {
>> \time 4/2
>> \set Timing.timeSignatureFraction = 2/2
>> c'2 2 2 2
>> }
>>
>> Lukas
>>
>>
>>
> The first solution creates unexpected beaming, so I would vote for the
> second:
>
> \version "2.22.1"
>
> \relative c'
> {
> \time 2/2 % (first solution)
> \set Timing.measureLength = #(ly:make-moment 4/2)
> c8 c c c c c c c
> d d d d d d d d
> e e e e e e e e
> f f f f f f f f
> }
>
> It would be a good standard feature to have—I use it all the time.
>
> Vaughan
>
>
