Re: entering music without \time

[Erik Sandberg]

On Thursday 02 September 2004 07.12, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > ok.. so the standard is to reduce as much as possible, and then
> > there is a list of pairs (duration . time signature) saying that
> > when the bar length is "duration", then "time signature" should be
> > used?
>
> Sounds OK.
>
> > There should be some mechanism that prevents this from happening
> > (perhaps only the barchecks of one staff should be used to define
> > the bar lengths, so the others could be used as bar checks)
>
> Exactly.  You *must* use `|' and friends, otherwise it wouldn't work.
>
> This idea could probably added to the `feature-requests' branch in the
> lily-bugs CVS.

You are free to do that if you like; you can view that branch more or less as 
a wiki but for developers only.

Erik