Re: Problem with \partial

[Juergen Reuter]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Graham Percival wrote:

> In my example, I _did_ state
>
> \noTimeSignature
> c4 c c c | d d d d \partial 4 d | c c c c
>
>
> ... and some contemporary music may want to change the number of beats in a 
> bar without changing the notated time signature.  Whatever we think of that 
> practice (and I dislike it too :) , I don't think we should explicitly 
> disallow it inside lilypond.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham

... "want to change the number of beats" just in a single bar or in many 
bars?  When bars are frequently changing in length, you probably want to 
completely forget about the meter and do something like this:

\version "2.9.0"
sep = \bar "|"
\score {
  \transpose c c' {
    c4 d \sep
    e f g \sep
    f e d c \bar "|."
  }
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Staff
      \remove "Time_signature_engraver"
    }
    \context {
      \Score
      timing = ##f
    }
  }
}


If you just want to change the meter for a single or very few bars, you 
really should do it with the \time command (because that is what \time is 
for).  If you do not like the time signature change to be printed, you 
still can remove the time signature engraver or set it to transparent.

Greetings,
Juergen