Re: How to parenthesize a time signature

[Carl Sorensen]

On 12/9/10 8:28 AM, "Mark Polesky" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>> Is there a quick way to parenthesize a simple time
>> signature?
> 
> There's a quick way to bracketify a time signature:
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=169
> 
> To get real parentheses requires a little more tweaking.
> Maybe someone who has already done this will chime in.  If
> not, I don't have time right now, but someone could tweak
> the idea in this post to accomplish it:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-05/msg00401.html
> 
\version "2.13.42"

\relative c'' {
  \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #(lambda (grob)
    (parenthesize-stencil (ly:time-signature::print grob) 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.1 ))
  \time 2/4
  a4 b8 c
}


HTH,

Carl