Re: compound time signature with split measure

[Mats Bengtsson]

Ideally, LilyPond should support all possible notations that anybody 
ever want to use. :-)
Seriously, the Tips and Tricks document contains an example
compound-time.ly, which provides a small function to typeset
time signatures of the form 6/8 + 5/8. If you or anybody else comes up 
with a similar function to simplify time
signatures of the style 6+5/8, then feel free to send it to the mailing 
list and/or add it to the LilyPond Snippet Repository.

Since there have been so many speculations and hints but no specific 
answer to the original question, I provide one here
(I was hoping that somebody else would manage)

tsMarkup =\markup {
 \override #'(baseline-skip . 2) \number {
   \hspace #1.0 \center-align { \line { 2 + 3 } 4 }
 }
}

The rest of the example can be taken from the one in the manual.

 /Mats

  /Mats
Quoting "Dave K." <address@hidden>:

> > Well, then you have to figure out how to typeset the
> > time signature you want, using text markup.
>
> Is this really ideal? Wouldn't it be better for Lilypond to be able to
> typeset these kinds of time signatures? They're not as uncommon as you
> might think.
>
> There are several styles:
>
> 6+5 / 8
>
> 6/8 + 5/8
>
> Sometimes measures with the same number of beats might need mixed time
> signatures:
>
> 6/8 + 3/4
>
> etc.
>
>
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