Re: TimeSignature with note in denominator

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Kieren,

> See my “stylesheet” comment earlier in the thread: in a perfect world, a user 
> should be able to take any existing score and simply add
>
>     \override Score.TimeSignature.style = #'note-denom
>
> and the output would be “as expected” — with a new function, a 
> search-and-replace (with possible “fancy” manipulation of the arguments) is 
> required every time the user wants to switch between styles. I personally 
> consider that inelegant, or at the very least suboptimal, especially when 
> Lilypond offers such a generous “global” context modification mechanism.
>
> All that being said: The tide of resistance to finding the optimal 
> implementation is evident, so I think I’ll just give up and add a new function 
> in order to move the patch/feature forward.

Oh, please don't give up just yet! :-)

You can very well have both: A TimeSignature style that turns 
old-fashioned \time 3/4 into "3 over a crotchet", and a vast 
generalization of the \time machinery that also accepts durations, tied 
combinations of durations etc. (and which, for simple durations like 
4,8,16 etc., falls back to standard \time 3/4 behaviour).

Question: What should happen if TimeSignature.style = #'note-denom is 
_not_ set, but the user does \time 4 { 8.~8 } ? Should this emit a 
warning "can't display this in current style", or ... ?

Lukas