Re: How to set up polymetric situations

[David Kastrup]

Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:

> Which may still entail different metronome markings for different
> groups or performers simultaneously, as in the example I gave, or for
> example in Britten’s War Requiem. True, it would require the user to
> really specify the metronome markings only in the top staff of the
> respective group (or remove the engraver from the other staves) –
> that’s a drawback, if not a huge one IMO.
> Now if we created a new TimingGroup context which contains StaffGroup
> and Staff level contexts, doesn’t alter barlines &c. and \consists
> only of Metronome_mark_engraver – but I shouldn’t snowball on with
> major new inventions like that, I guess? It _would_ suit the semantics
> very well and be satisfyingly clear to document.

I don't see any semantics it would suit.  What would it be useful for?
I mean, you can easily define such a context and play around with it in
a document of yours, but I doubt it would do what you expect it to do.

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David Kastrup