Time signature in French baroque music

2006-12-29 Thread Francesco Spiga
Hi everyone! I'm editing an early-18th-century French composition. As in French baroque music 3/4 time is written just by a great "3", I'd like to know if it exist in LilyPond a command to this sign. Thank you... :-) Franek ___ lilypond-use

Re: Time signature in French baroque music

2006-12-29 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. > I'm editing an early-18th-century French composition. > As in French baroque music 3/4 time is written just by a great "3", I'd > like to know if it exist in LilyPond a command to this sign. > Some time ago, I had asked how to define a compound time signature. I got some hints but couldn'

Re: Time signature in French baroque music

2006-12-29 Thread Manuel
Franek, I recently and finally managed to solve the problem for an Allemaigne, changig the time signature of the "Recoupe" from 3/4 to a single "3". I include the file here, you can see the special command: \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'single-digit \time 3/4 which I had to put

Re: Time signature in French baroque music

2006-12-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting Manuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Franek, I recently and finally managed to solve the problem for an Allemaigne, changig the time signature of the "Recoupe" from 3/4 to a single "3". I include the file here, you can see the special command: \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'sing

Re: Time signature in French baroque music

2007-01-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Regarding the original question, the simple answer, which has already been given, is to use \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'single-digit Regarding Gilles' problems with compound time signatures, I would recommend to use the example in Sect. "8.4.1 Polymetric notation" as a starting poi

Re: Time signature in French baroque music

2007-01-03 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. > > Regarding Gilles' problems with compound time signatures, I would recommend > to use the example in Sect. "8.4.1 Polymetric notation" as a starting > point. > Then, you could end up with something like: > > \version "2.8.7" > > #(define (compound-time-2 one two three four) > (markup #

Re: Time signature in French baroque music

2007-01-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
If you replace the function by #(define (compound-time-2m one two three four) (markup #:override '(baseline-skip . 0) #:number (#:line ((#:column (one two)) #:vcenter "+" (#:column (three four)) it seems to work well for both staff sizes. /Mats Gilles Sadowski wrote: Hi. Regarding

Re: Time signature in French baroque music

2007-01-04 Thread Francesco Spiga
Manuel wrote: \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'single-digit \time 3/4 which I had to put in both parts separately. I don't know exactly what you are trying to do, but maybe it will help. Yes, that's exactly the command I was looking for! The manual is not very clear about it, so I