Re: elegant compound time signatures

[Hans Aberg]

On 20 Oct 2008, at 06:53, Graham Percival wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 04:36:48PM +0200, Hans Aberg wrote:
>
> > This gankino horo snip is typeset as (2+2)+(2+1)+(2+2), again not  
> > wrong,
> > but scores use the styles 4+3+4 or (2+2)+3+(2+2). (Hitting the  
> > same 2+1
> > problem.)
>
> What, like this?  I think this is the second bar of the gankino
> horo snippet. Here's two ways of doing it, depending on how picky
> you want to be.

Yes, both styles exist in my scores. It is though too complicated to  
wrte stuff i each measure, as in your second example.

I used:
  \tempo 4 = 120
  \time 11/16
  \set beatGrouping = #'(2 2 2 1 2 2)
  \set subdivideBeams = ##t
  #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 11 16) 4 16)
  #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 11 16) 7 16)
Now the beaming, in latest LilyPond 2.11.62, the beaming has changed to:

Changing the above to
  \set beatGrouping = #'(2 2 3 2 2)
does not change this output.

- I think I know essentially what structure is needed to describe  
these beaming patterns, and even went as far start writing a Haskell  
program. But the it is a complicated problem.

  Hans