Re: Cut time/half-time/alle breve & 8/4 time

[Lukas-Fabian Moser via LilyPond user discussion]

Hi Stanton,

I’m setting various short organ pieces from an old Peters edition, 
mostly to prevent my aging brain from forgetting…

One piece is in 8/4 time -the first measure has a whole note and 2 
half notes. However, the time signature as printed is the cut time 
symbol. How can I reproduce this? I’m using Lilypond 2.25.11.
The solutions given so far seem to be more complicated than necessary, I 
think.

\relative c' {
  \time 4/2
  \set Timing.timeSignatureFraction = 2/2
  c4 d e f g a b c d
}

Lukas