Thanks Carl, that's exactly what I was looking for. Something I tried naively at first: \parenthesize \time 4/4
But \parenthesize seems only to work for notes, rests, and chords. -Jonathan --- On Fri, 12/10/10, Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> wrote: > From: Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> > Subject: Re: How to parenthesize a time signature > To: "Mark Polesky" <markpole...@yahoo.com>, "lilypond-user@gnu.org" > <lilypond-user@gnu.org>, "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancs...@yahoo.com> > Date: Friday, December 10, 2010, 1:06 AM > > > > On 12/9/10 8:28 AM, "Mark Polesky" <markpole...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > >> Is there a quick way to parenthesize a simple > time > >> signature? > > > > There's a quick way to bracketify a time signature: > > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=169 > > > > To get real parentheses requires a little more > tweaking. > > Maybe someone who has already done this will chime > in. If > > not, I don't have time right now, but someone could > tweak > > the idea in this post to accomplish it: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-05/msg00401.html > > > \version "2.13.42" > > \relative c'' { > \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #(lambda > (grob) > (parenthesize-stencil > (ly:time-signature::print grob) 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.1 )) > \time 2/4 > a4 b8 c > } > > > HTH, > > Carl > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
