Trying to write a piece where the very first bar is completely devoid of any time signature indicators. Under the hood it's okay if the measure is a 4/4, I just don't want that to be visible on the PDF. The reason is, one of the musicians in the group will play an unmetered, improvised intro that ends on the first beat of the first metered measure, so I want to put an empty measure there with a simple s1 and a markup for reference. I realize this is unconventional.
I've tried \cadenzaOn and \cadenzaOff before the first occurrence of a \time statement, I've \hide TimeSignature and even \omit TimeSignature, but it seems I haven't found the correct way of accomplishing this. I'm really just trying anything here. I couldn't find a good solution on Lilypond's unmetered music section <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#unmetered-music> . Also if I make the staff \with { \remove "Time_signature_engraver" } the first time signature does vanish, but so do all time signatures everywhere, which is not intended. The attached image is a mockup of the intended score, made with Photoshop. Thanks in advance. <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/t5079/mockup.png> -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
