Re: Removing Time Signature entirely (not just transparent)

[Phil Holmes]

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Subject: Removing Time Signature entirely (not just transparent)


> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am working on some highly customized notation for proportionally notated
> phase music. I need all of the beats on the page to take up the same
> amount of space so that the rhythms can be clearly seen. What I need to do
> now is to take away the time signature in the first line entirely (not
> just make it transparent). I need to take it away entirely because if I
> make it transparent it still takes up space and makes the first line have
> a smaller proportional notation than the rest of the lines.
>
> See attached image.
>
> I tried adding the following in the context field but that works for the
> bar numbers but not the time signature.
>
> \layout {
> \context {
> \Score
> \remove "Bar_number_engraver"
> \remove "Time_signature_engraver"
> }
>
> Another issue is that I need the time signature there so that I can
> control how many beats are on each line but I don't want it to show up at
> all.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Carl
The Time_signature_engraver is part of the staff context, so you need to 
remove it from that, with something like:

\new Staff \with {
\remove "Time_signature_engraver"
}
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