Re: Creating a comparison of several variants of unmettered chant

[Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)]

Jiri Zurek (Prague) wrote
> The scaled durations do not offer a solution, just a workaround. Lilypond
> still attempts to "count" the beats, aligning vertically beat after beat.
> What I would like to achieve is to force Lilypond not to count beats at all.
> Rather, to align vertically certain "bits of music" which I mark clearly
> somehow, for example by the "|" sing (as in parallel music). Is there such a
> possibility?
>   
I suggest to just use 4/4 measures and \times 4/N where N is the number 
of notes in the passage. Everything should be made in \cadenzaOn, so the 
alignment will be done only when you say \bar ""

Bert