(Sorry for the lengthy post, but a couple of issues came up when I tried to work with an older file I did some time ago.)
About 18 months ago Reinhold helped me figure out how to display time signatures like (3+3+4)/16 in which there is a complex upper portion of the time signature over a simple lower portion. Reinhold provided a fairly complex fix at that time, but with updating from 2.12.2 to 2.13.18, it runs into some problems with beat grouping. In particular running the convert does a reasonable job except for this error: > Not smart enough to convert beatGrouping. > beatGrouping with a specified context must now be accomplished with > \overrideBeamSettings. > Please refer to the manual for details, and update manually. OK. Fair enough, I need to look at the current manual, but there are some problems with the documentation online that make this problematic. If I go to here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13//Documentation/web/manuals.html and search, it does not search the 2.13 documentation, but the 2.12 documentation (where \overrideBeamSettings is, for obvious reasons, not found). So I modify the search string to change the version number to 2.13. Not a big deal, just a minor annoyance, but it only brings up one hit: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/ce/lily-547b3574.ly Which returns a 404. (And the Google hit doesn't have a cache to look at!) So the question is where can I find the documentation for \overrideBeamSettings? I'd like to consult that *before* I come here and get a RTFM response, but in this case it seems that TFM doesn't exist. For what it's worth, what I'm trying to get right is the equivalent in function to http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13//Documentation/snippets/rhythms#changing-time-signatures-inside-a-polymetric-section-using-_005cscaledurations , but the display is quite a bit different in appearance and cleaner, e.,g.,
<<inline: timeSample.gif>>
That was the output from 2.12.2. If I convert it and convert to PDF, I get the following, which is (obviously) not what I want:
<<inline: timeSample2.gif>>
(I'm not sure why the first line only is doubled.) At the time I first got Reinhold's solution, I believe he said that this time signature notation would make it into the trunk for 2.13, but I'm not entirely certain I recall that right. So my question is if there is now a preferred way to accomplish this sort of time signature in 2.13.x with autobeaming (and hopefully no unexplained duplication of the first line of the *monophonic* score) If anyone wants to see the entire scores in question, here is the link to the original Lilypond file for 2.12.2, which worked under that version: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/223919/lilypond/compound.ly And here is the PDF: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/223919/lilypond/compound.pdf Here is the link to the output from the convert function (2.13.18): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/223919/lilypond/compound2.ly And the PDF it makes: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/223919/lilypond/compound2.pdf Any guidance on this would be welcome since this is digging into some pretty obscure code. Thanks in advance for any insights, Arle Lommel
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