On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 14:52, Lukas-Fabian Moser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Brent,
>
> Am 24.06.21 um 03:53 schrieb Brent Annable:
> > Just a quick question: is there any way to display a 4/2 time
> > signature as cut common? I've tried 4/2, 8/4 and 2/1, but none of them
> > seem to default to cut common.
>
> That's a sufficiently common notation (in Renaissance and faux-archaic
> music e.g. by later Church composers) that maybe this should be an feature.
>
> But it's not hard to force the desired behaviour. I know of two ways
> (and have no idea if one is better than the other):
>
> a) Ask for \time 2/2 and tamper with the measure length.
> b) Ask for \time 4/2 and tamper with the printed symbol.
>
> \version "2.22.1"
>
> {
> \time 2/2
> \set Timing.measureLength = #(ly:make-moment 4/2)
> c'2 2 2 2
> }
>
> {
> \time 4/2
> \set Timing.timeSignatureFraction = 2/2
> c'2 2 2 2
> }
>
> Lukas
>
>
>
The first solution creates unexpected beaming, so I would vote for the
second:
\version "2.22.1"
\relative c'
{
\time 2/2 % (first solution)
\set Timing.measureLength = #(ly:make-moment 4/2)
c8 c c c c c c c
d d d d d d d d
e e e e e e e e
f f f f f f f f
}
It would be a good standard feature to have—I use it all the time.
Vaughan
