Re: Request for comments: Redesign of TimeSignature

[Juergen Reuter]

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> Another aspect when it comes to mensural notation is that
> it is fairly common to change to shorter note values when
> doing modern editions of the old manuscripts. See for example
> some of the pieces in the editions of the music by Thomas
> Ravenscroft at http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/modern/
>

Exactly.  That's the purpose of transcription-shift in my proposal.

> You may want to print both a scholarly edition and a performance
> edition from the same Lilypond definition of the music.

Right.  So far, I already succeeded in doing this for mensural ligatures,
see input/test/mensural-ligatures.ly on how I did it for ligatures.

Greetings,
Juergen