Re: 'baroque' time signatures

[Jean Bréfort]

Le lundi 21 mars 2022 à 20:37 +0000, Werner LEMBERG a écrit :
> In modern transcriptions of baroque music it is custom to use time
> signatures for half the length.  For example, if you have 4/2 bar,
> the
> time signature shows 'C'; if you have a 6/1 bar, the time signature
> shows '3/1'.
> 
> Is there a simple way to get the equivalent to the following
> (invalid)
> syntax?
> 
> ```
> \time 4/2*1/2
> \time 6/1*1/2
> ```
> 
> 
>    Werner
> 

May be you can use something like:
\override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print
\override Staff.TimeSignature #'text = \markup \musicglyph #"timesig.C44"
\time 4/2

I'm pretty sure there is a simpler solution, but I don't remember it.

Hope this helps
Jean