Re: time signature above staff AND Notes instead of numbers

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Bec and John Silva wrote:
> Hi Mats,
>
> Thanks for that, I'm almost there. A problem I'm having is that when I use:
>
> \mark \markup { \hspace #-3.0 \lower #0.0 { \number \teeny { \bracket 
> \column { "6" "4" } } } }
>
> The pseudo-time signature is very far above the staff, and using \lower 
> lowers the entire staff instead of lowering the markup. Since I'm using 
> this as a means to show time signature changes without putting it in the 
> staff lines, I'm using that markup within the part.
>
> If I change it to:
>
> s1*0^\markup { \hspace #-3.0 \lower #0.0 { \number \teeny { \bracket 
> \column { "6" "4" } } } }
>
> It is at a better height, however there are still 2 problems. 1) Even 
> though I move the time signature over to the bar line, it still refuses 
> to go lower than the first note in the measure - so if the note is above 
> the staff lines the pseudo-time signature becomes too high. 2) Since I'm 
> using \teeny, the space between the numbers is too much - how can I make 
> the numbers closer together?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - John


I would make a context LargeTimeSignatures  which contains only  a 
Time_signature_engraver, something like

\header {
  texidoc = "Time signatures may be put on a separate staff.
This is used contemporary pieces with many time signatures
"
}
\version "2.6.0"
\layout {
  raggedright =  ##T
}

\layout{
  \context {
    \type "Engraver_group_engraver"
    \consists "Time_signature_engraver"
    \consists "Axis_group_engraver"
    \name "TimeSig"
    \override TimeSignature #'font-size = #4
  }
  \context {
    \Score \accepts TimeSig
  }

  \context { \Staff \remove "Time_signature_engraver" }
}


\relative
<< \new Staff { \time 2/4 c2 \time 3/4 c2. \time 4/4 c1 }
   \new TimeSig {
     \skip 1 * 2
   }
   \new Staff { r4 r r
                r4 r r
                r4 r r }

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