Re: using the cut-time symbol for 4/2 etc.

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/6/30 Peter Kaplan <address@hidden>:
> I am producing an edition in 4/2 time, but I would like to use the traditional
> symbol for cut time (¢) rather than the numerical signature (4/2).  Is there a
> straightforward way to do this and still have lilypond create measures that 
> are
> 4 half-notes long instead of two half-notes long?

The most straightforward way is to print it as a musicglyph inside a
markup, and for that you have to replace the time-signature-interface
with the text-interface:

\once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'stencil = #ly:text-interface::print
\once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'text = \markup \musicglyph #"timesig.C22"
\time 4/2


Cheers,
Valentin