Re: using the cut-time symbol for 4/2 etc.

[Karl Hammar]

Valentin:
> 2008/6/30 Peter Kaplan <address@hidden>:
> > I am producing an edition in 4/2 time, but I would like to use the 
> > traditional
> > symbol for cut time (¢) rather than the numerical signature (4/2).  Is 
> > there a
> > straightforward way to do this and still have lilypond create measures that 
> > are
> > 4 half-notes long instead of two half-notes long?
> 
> The most straightforward way is to print it as a musicglyph inside a
> markup, and for that you have to replace the time-signature-interface
> with the text-interface:
> 
> \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print
> \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'text = \markup \musicglyph 
> #"timesig.C22"
> \time 4/2

Doesn't this work?

 \set Staff.timeSignatureFraction = #'(2 . 2)
 \time 4/2

Regards,
/Karl