Re: Odd time-signatures

[Mats Bengtsson]

Please always tell what LilyPond version you use when asking questions.
Also, please use address@hidden for general usage questions like
this one and keep lilypond-devel for questions specific for the latest
development version (2.7.x for the moment).

I just tried the following example with LilyPond version 2.6 and 2.7
and it doesn't present any problems.

\version "2.6.0"
\relative c'{
  \time 10/4
  c2 d e f g |
}


If you don't want to print the time signature, take a look at the
email entitled "Re: unmetered music question" that I sent to the
lilypond-user mailing list earlier today (it's not in the archives
yet but will be in a few hours time).

 /Mats


Peter Quarrell wrote:
> I just downloaded Lilypond in order to improve the printing of psalm chants in 
> our church Sunday news sheet.  We use a psalm-chant system created by one of 
> our congregation.  The normal chant covers 2 verses of the psalm, with 10 
> crotchet beats per half verse.  The chant's 4 quarter-verses are therefore 
> printed as 4 bars, each of 10 crotchet beats.  Each bar is a semibreve, 
> followed by 2 crotchets, followed by another semibreve.
>
> We don't actually want a time-signature in the output (because, like the 
> traditional Anglican chant, timing doesn't mean anything when you are 
> chanting), but that doesn't matter.  My problem is that I can't see how to get 
> the output I want, with only 1 bar-line per 10-crotchet phrase.  Lilypond 
> seems to reject a time-signature of 10/4.  Although it is an odd 
> time-signature to want, it ought to be possible to implement it.  Why does it 
> not work?  The best I have been able to get has been 6/4, and using PaintShop 
> Pro to remove or shift the bar-lines has produced a messy result.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Peter Quarrell 
>
>
>
>
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