Re: multiple time signatures

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 21:14:39 -0500, "David Hughes" wrote:
> > 
> > Is LilyPond able to create multiple time signatures occurring
> > at the same time on separate staves?
> 
> I have a similar problem that I've come close to solving.
> 
> I'm working on an arrangement of all the Brahms chorale preludes.  The
> G. Henle edition, edited by Brahms scholar George Bozarth, prints "O
> Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid", WoO7 (second version), with the cantus
> firmus and pedal in common time but the left hand in 12/8.  Thus one
> quarter note in the right hand is equal to three eights in the left
> hand.
> 
> After many experiments, my current almost-solution is to let Lily
> believe everything is in 4/4, overwrite the time signatures on a
> couple of staves, and for those staves everything is \times 2/3 {}.
> 
> Now all I have to do is tell Lily not to print those long triple
> indicators:
>  _______ 3 _________
> |                   |
> 
> If someone could tell me how to do it that would be great.  If someone
> could tell me where I should have looked to find this information,
> that would be better.  Of course, if there's a better solution to this
> then please don't keep it to yourself.

It seems like the correct way to handle things; you can use
tupletInvisible to suppress the brackets. You have a problem if the
12/8 contains tuplets, though.

I'm writing something neater for that purpose.

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