Re: whole measure, unusual time signature

[David Kastrup]

Victor Eijkhout <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm writing a piece in 14/16, and that's not 7/8: it's counted 4+3+3+4
> sixteenths.
>
> 1. Is there a way to make beaming automatically to 4-3-3-4?

Assuming that you have a reasonably recent version (2.16.something), you
can just use

\time #'(4 3 3 4) 14/16

> 2. If I have a whole measure rest, I find that \times 14/16 {R1} gives
> a nice simple notation. Now I want a note that is held for a whole
> measure look like \times 14/16 { c1 }, but that has a little 16 under
> it. Can I get rid of that? (I suspect someone will have to dictate me
> a snipped of Scheme).

R1*14/16

> 3. I have a part (labeled "mastertrack") that is completely empty
> except for a bunch of "\mark\default" and "\bar .|." thingies, and
> that I overlay on each part. This has worked fine in the
> past. However, using \times 14/16 {s1} to get a whole empty measure
> gives a strange message:
>
> programming error: stopped tuplet bracket has neither left nor right bound
> continuing, cross fingers
>
> Help?

Don't use \times here but rather *14/16 on the duration.

-- 
David Kastrup