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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: multiple timesignatures
From:       Urs Liska <lilypond () ursliska ! de>
Date:       2011-07-25 8:35:13
Message-ID: 4E2D2AC1.9000709 () ursliska ! de
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Am 23.07.2011 19:38, schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
> Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2011, 19:28:08 schrieb Ruud van Silfhout:
>> However, I thought now compoundMeters made it into lily, it is also time
>> that multiple meters should make it into lily as a logical successor :-).
> Actually, dual times (like 3/4 5/4) are not easy to support in lilypond,
> because lilypond relies on the time signature to calculate the measure length
> (the | are just checks, they don't cause a new measures!).
>
> For dual times, each measure length might be either of the two values,
> possibly with no logical structure, so lilypond does not have any information
> about the measure length.
>
> (For dual times like 3/4 6/8 which have the same length the measure length is
> not a problem, but now lilypond doesn't know which automatic beaming to apply
> to a measure...)
As I understand the OP, he would want to supply the actual \time - just 
suppress the printing of the time signature.
So this shouldn't be a problem.
> Cheers,
> Reinhold



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