Re: How to parenthesize a time signature

[Jonathan Wilkes]

Thanks Carl, that's exactly what I was looking for.

Something I tried naively at first:
\parenthesize
\time 4/4

But \parenthesize seems only to work for notes, rests, and chords.

-Jonathan


--- On Fri, 12/10/10, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Carl Sorensen <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: How to parenthesize a time signature
> To: "Mark Polesky" <address@hidden>, "address@hidden" <address@hidden>, 
> "Jonathan Wilkes" <address@hidden>
> Date: Friday, December 10, 2010, 1:06 AM
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
>