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Re: showing TimeSignatures on each line?
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Simon Albrecht |
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Re: showing TimeSignatures on each line? |
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Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:46:36 +0200 |
Hi Evan,
On 29.08.2017 22:26, Evan Laforge wrote:
In music where the time signature changes a lot, it's nice to show the
time signature on each line even when it hasn't changed.
Are you sure? Who does that? I looked in the very finely engraved full
score of Stravinsky’s Sacre, and Stravinsky and/or the engraver(s)
didn’t find it necessary/desirable. If it’s unnecessary there, it should
be unnecessary anywhere.
Is there a
way to get that to happen?
There certainly is, but I don’t have a striking idea, or: it doesn’t
seem there’s a simple way.
I experimented with the (undocumented?)
TimeSignature.break-visibility, but even with (#t #t #t) it doesn't
seem to have any effect.
Many properties aren’t specifically documented for specific grobs. The
IR [1] shows you that it’s already ##(#t #t #t). But break-visibility
isn’t the right tool, since you are asking about inserting additional
time signatures, not about hiding or showing the ones that are there.
Sorry I can’t come up with an actual solution right now.
Best, Simon
[1] <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/timesignature>