Re: compound time signatures on different staves

[Graham Percival]

On 6-Jul-05, at 8:04 AM, Young, Jason wrote:
> Here's my problem: I need to express 4 concurrent staves of music, 
> each with a different time signature, but having the measures line up. 
> Right now I have something of a workaround but it's still not really 
> what I want to express, and I couldn't find anything about this in the 
> user documentation or in a search of the mailing list archive. Is 
> there an easy way to do this?
>
> Currently I'm using Lilypond version 2.2. I looked in the news section 
> for 2.4 and 2.6 to see if later versions would do this, but only saw 
> the compound time signature feature for a single staff.

Read the doc section for "Polymetric notation" in the 2.6 manual.  I 
think it's possible to do
in version 2.2, but it's easier in 2.4 and 2.6.

- Graham