Re: entering music without \time

[Paul Scott]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> For my score, I have a separate, invisible `top' staff which contains
> all \time commands, and which is always included -- this saves a lot
> of typing.  Unfortunately, this doesn't work with \addquote, since I
> can't have more than a single voice for this command.  How can this be
> solved?
>
> My idea is to have an input mode where \time commands aren't necessary
> to change the length of a bar; `|' and siblings should be enough to do
> that.  Example:
>
>  c4 c c c | c c c |
>
> should be the same as
>
>  \time 4/4 c4 c c c | \time 3/4 c c c |
>
> (without printing the time signatures).
>
> Is such a feature already available?
>  
I use this "global" idea also.  I don't think treating time like this 
makes programmatic sense.  It would seem to require a "global" block 
with special properties.  I would want your

c4 c c c | c c c |

To give me an error because of the missing beat in the second measure.

Paul Scott