Re: entering music without \time

[Erik Sandberg]

On Saturday 21 August 2004 10.02, 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).
>

To me it makes sense to notate bar lengths by example (i like in general when 
you can show what you mean by example; that way you don't have to learn a new 
complicated syntax).

But there is a major problem: How would you tell the difference between e.g. 
3/4 and 6/8?

Erik