On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:36:23 +0100, Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]>
wrote:
Greetings Lilypouncers,
Is there a quick way to parenthesize a simple time signature?
I'm not sure whether this is standard or not, but I used it once or
twice at the beginning of a score that shows an excerpt from, say, the
middle of a piece, to make it clear that the time signature also
applied to the music leading up to the excerpt. (I think I used it a
long time ago in a copy job for a musicologist, but I can't be sure.)
Thanks,
Jonathan
it is possible to put it between square brackets:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Staff-notation#Time-signature-in-parentheses
a *very* rough method to put it into "rounded" parenthesis could be:
-----------------------8<-------------------------------------------------
\version "2.12.3"
#(define ((parenthesize-time up down) grob)
(grob-interpret-markup grob
(markup #:override '(baseline-skip . 0) #:number
(#:line (
#:vcenter "("
(#:column (up down))
#:vcenter ")" )))))
\relative c'' {
\override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #(parenthesize-time "2" "4")
\time 2/4
a4 b8 c
}
-----------------------8<-------------------------------------------------
you can hopefully tweak it further to suit your needs...
greetings,
Vicente
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