Sponsorship offer (Re: [Re: Proper handling of accidentals in unmetered music?])

[Ted Walther]

Han-Wen, how much would you want to implement a \FreeMeter function?

You would specify \FreeMeter instead of 3/4 or 4/4 in the TimeSignature.

Or you could specify \FreeMeter instead of \TimeSignature 3/4 etc.

Then every time you entered \bar "|" or just | by itself, that would be
counted as a new measure, the bar numbering would be updated properly,
accidentals would be reset properly, and so on.

I am transcribing 3000 year old music that has been discovered by
archaelogists and researchers, and the music is very "free-meter".
Someone posted a solution that requires making the time signature
invisible, and then changing the time signature every single time I want
to start a new measure.  I have a lot of music to transcribe; this will
be a major, major pain, figuring out what the right time signature is
for a particular measure.

Ted

On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:45:34AM +0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Ruud van Silfhout wrote:
> > This could be mixed nicely with another feature that has been requested 
> > once and awhile:
> > composite time signatures (or compound timesignatures as I also have 
> > seen). This is used in modern church music. This could be specified with 
> > something like '\timeset { 4/4 3/4 }'. This triggers the follwoing 
> > behavior:
> > 1. At the point of definition the time signature are printed.
> > 2. By default the actual time signature is set to the first signature in 
> > the set.
> > 3. When a timesignature changes within the set i.e. from 3/4 to 4/4 and 
> > back, no timesignature is printed by default.
> > 4. When a timesignature changes from something in the time signature set 
> > to something outside it, then the timesignature is printed by default.
> > 5. When a timesignature is changed from something outside the set to 
> > someting in it, then the time signature is not printed by default.
> > 6. An empty set reverts the behaviour to the normal lilypond behaviour 
> > with the currently active timesignature, which is then printed by default.
> > 7. All items mentioned before as 'by default' are tweakable properties.
> > If the extra '\time x/y' statements are too much to type one could also 
> > think of using the "|" to simplify notation, although this leads to 
> > overloaded usage of the "|" symbol.
>
> I can add this as a sponsored feature. Please contact me privately, if 
> interested.
>
>
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