After wrestling with a transcription of an
unmetered piece by Mark Sirett (Thou Shalt Know Him), my
wife and I were going bonkers trying to get lyrics aligned to the
notes. The piece has no time signature and bars of uneven length. We
tried using \cadenzaOn to get the unmetered aspect, but the
fundamental problem is that \cadenzaOn turns off autoBeam, which in
turn means that manual beaming in a cadenza creates unwanted
melismata. We worked out that taking out the \cadenzaOn(Off) would
help, and getting rid of a default time signature is easy enough, by
removing the engraver in the Staff context and entering explicit
bars ( \bl = \bar "|" ), but we had to beam by hand and we still got
barlines in unexpected (i.e. we didn't enter them!) places. The last
pieces of the puzzle were to go to the Layout block and a Score
context, to set automaticBars = ##f , then back to our \global for a
time signature of 1/4 so that autoBeam would group eighths in twos,
Bob's your uncle, and so to bed!
Cheers,
Colin
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
-Maya Angelou, poet (1928- )
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