RE: double time signatures

[James Lowe]

Hello,


-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden on behalf of Reinhold Kainhofer
Sent: Sat 12/11/2010 22:08
To: address@hidden
Cc: James Bailey
Subject: Re: double time signatures
 
Am Samstag, 11. Dezember 2010, um 21:18:40 schrieb James Bailey:
> On Dec 11, 2010, at 8:33 PM, Martin Kemp wrote:
> > Dear All
> > 
> > I have nearly got what I want with the following snippet but can't
> > currently centrally align 12 over 8 (12/8). Any help gratefully
> > apprecitated.
> 
> You may be re-inventing the whell. Perhaps
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-08/msg00447.html will
> help you.

Actually, no. My code was for compound time signatures, like 2/8+3/8 (i.e. 5/8 
divided into 2+3), while the request is for two independent time signatures.

The approach to override the stencil is fine, just one small markup issue was 
missing, see my other mail.


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So why isn't 

\new Staff {
    \time 3/4
    \set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = #'(12 . 8)
    \scaleDurations #'(3 . 5) {
      \repeat unfold 2 { c8[ c c] }
      \repeat unfold 2 { c8[ c] } |
      c4. c4. \times 2/3 { c8[ c c] } c4
    }
  }

Appropriate (this was taken from Polymetric notation in the NR - I added the 
'12.8')

James?