Re: Variable length bars

[Urs Liska]

Am 27.06.2014 10:05, schrieb Urs Liska:
> Am 26.06.2014 23:53, schrieb Patrick or Cynthia Karl:
> > 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?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> You question comes at the right time :-)
>
> I'm sure my last post can help you here
> http://lilypondblog.org/2014/06/polymetrics-in-sibelius-vs-lilypond/
>
> Particularly you can go to the link to the openLilyLib snippets repo at
> the end of the article.
>
> HTH
> Urs

PS: In short: You would print that time signature by overriding the 
stencil and then simply \omit TimeSignature and use regular \time commands.