Re: Additive time signatures

[Joseph Wakeling]

Kurt Kroon wrote:
>> (I'm not sure if one can extend this last one in LilyPond to more complex
>> examples, like when the numerator is an additive expression, and the
>> denominator is a single digit, e.g. (3+2+3)/8.)
> 
> I was mistaken ... it *is* possible to extend the syntax (which seems
> completely reasonable, in retrospect).  I've borrowed (and stretched) the
> compound-time-signature snippet as follows:

Is it possible to express time signatures so that the denominator is an
(arbitrary) _note_, as used in e.g. Orff and other contemporary
composers?  e.g. 3/8 displaying as a 3 over an eighth-note/quaver.