Re: Variable length bars

[Matthew Collett]

On 27/06/2014, at 9:53 am, Patrick or Cynthia Karl <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm trying to set a John Dowland piece (Come Ye Heavy States of Night) which 
> has a single initial time signature of "4/2 2/2" followed by measures that 
> are either 4 half-note beats or 2 half-note beats long, in quasi-random 
> fashion.
> 
> It's clear that if I can get that time signature printed, I can set the piece 
> by appropriate use of \set Timing.measureLength.
> 
> Can anyone point me to a way to do that?

I can't recall where I got the attached snippet from, but it has done the job 
for me on a number of occasions.

Best wishes,
Matthew

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