No time signature?

[Monk Panteleimon]

> 
> I'm new to Lilypond. I've been looking for a way to typeset music without
> time signatures. This is because I'm transcribing chants that often use
> _recitativ_ and rarely follow any strict meter--the rhythm of the chant is
> completely text-driven. 

Hello Alyozhik,

When I'm doing metreless chant from parts of the
world where people have names like "Alyozhik,"  I remove the
Bar_number_engraver and Time_signature engraver in the layout block and
\set Score.timing = ##f in a global definition. The second takes care of
both timing and bar lines.

If you look here 

http://www.holycross-hermitage.com/kliros/lilysource/kliros.ly

You will find lots of tricks for making this kind of music, including
one that lets you cruise through the whole piece without even adding
invisible bars for line breaks. This is defined as \chant. However, it
messes up the spacing just a wee little bit, so I almost always go back
and put the line breaks when I'm done.

БъВъПъ

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