Ted Walther wrote: > The example of doing an invisible time signature that is found in the > lilypond documentation really isn't very clear. > > In many hymns, the time signature is 4/4, but it starts off with a bar > in 2/4, 3/8, or similar. > > Oddly, in the second hymn I did, if I did the whole thing as 4/4, > lilypond complained that it couldn't find good places to break the > lines. But when I made the first bar 3/8 and the last bar 5/8, lilypond > produced something almost identical to the original. You can see what I > mean here: > > http://reactor-core.org/~djw/IsraelMarching.pdf > > Can someone clarify how to do invisible time signature changes? > > Failing that, can we have a "grace measure", similar to how we have > grace notes? > > Ted > If I understand you correctly that's what \partial is for (pickups).
\partial s8*3 a8 b c %for three eight note pickups. Paul Scott _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
