Re: time signature above staff AND Notes instead of numbers

[Bec and John Silva]

Hi,

Thanks guys for your excellent responses!

One final question on the issue - is it possible to wrap the time  
signature in parenthesis instead of brackets? I was trying by  
altering the font sizes so the parenthesis was large enough to cover  
both columns, but it was getting messy very fast and I didn't quite  
get it looking right.

- John


> The distance from the staff to the bottom edge of the \mark is
> determined by the padding property of the RehearsalMark object,
> as described in the "The \override Command" section of the manual.
> So,
>   \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'padding = #0.0
> will place it so it touches the staff.
> You may also want to play with the horizontal alignment, for example
>   \once \override Score.RehearsalMark #'self-alignment-X = #-1
> to make it left aligned instead of the default centering.
>
> Finally, \override Staff.TimeSignature #'transparent = ##t will leave
> an empty space in the stave where the time signature would have been
> printed. If you want to get rid of this extra space, you could instead
> do   \override Staff.TimeSignature #'print-function = ##f
>
>
>    /Mats


<and>

> 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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