Re: Looking for Time signature tweak - Thanks to David, Kieren and Reinhold

[Villum Sejersen]

Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Reinhold,
> > This is essentially what
> >   \once \override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'single-digit
> > does, except that with the single-digit style the number is 
> > automatically
> > extracted from the time signature...
> Wow... never seen that in the docs before!?
> Very cool.
>
> Thanks,
> Kieren.
Thank you all for the incredibly short time to get led on.

I ended up with (sufficiently minimalized, except for the left-in bar 
checks? ;-) ):


\version "2.13.1"

\relative c' {
\time 6/4
   es2 f4 g2 g4 |
\override Staff.TimeSignature #'style = #'single-digit
\override Staff.TimeSignature #'font-size = #4
\time 7/4
   c2 des4 es2 des2 |
\time 3/4
   c2. |
}


\once and \override Staff.TimeSignature #'Y-offset = #-2 not being 
neccesary here; font-size #6 optically being too heavy compared with the 
manuscript.


I agree with you, Kieren, that it's not advisable always mimicking the 
layout of a manuscript. In this case however the only persons who are 
getting to see the result already have sung from that manuscript and 
know the very personal style of this particular composer. My main 
purpose of typesetting the piece was producing a midi-file; that done 
the challenge of adjusting the visual output to look a little more like 
the manuscript crept in.

David and Reinhold (hi: Graham!), I simply had forgotten, how extremely 
stripped-down examples can still be processed. After I think five years 
always using variables and score blocks etc. it is hard to recurse to 
the very beginnings...

Now knowing the answer I will try finding out how best to look it up in 
the documentation, any conclusions being posted in -devel. The stumbling 
blocks here are: my little musical education is danish, not english, and 
my knowledge of LilyPond internals still rudimentary.

--
Yours  Villum Sejersen
Nørregade  1 A
DK-4500  Nykøbing Sj.
Danmark
mobil   +45   30 34  03 44
http://home20.inet.tele.dk/vsevisit/

vse.vcf
Description: Vcard