Re: Lining up notes in staves with different rhythms and time signatures

[Blöchl Bernhard]

That are the interesting cases where to outsmart the optimised depiction 
of lilypond. Usually not an easy task!

First thee is an error, as
 d8 d4. a16 c8. |
does not sum up to 2/4. Nay be that line should read
| e8 g a g | e c4. | d8 d4. | a8 c4.
??

Beside any solution (I do not have any ready) there is some basic math 
fr clarification needed. You have
\time 2/4 and \time 6/8. A common time for to give an equal length of 
complete bars/measures is 12/8 or a multiple of.
2/4 = 4/8, into 12/8 you can get 3 of. And for 6/8 you can get two of. 
Hopefully you might get equal length?

In the fist motive you have 8 bars 6/8, makes 48 eighths and an eight 
partial. In the second motive you have 9 bars (if my assumption is 
correct) of 2/4, makes 18/4 or 36 eighths. So, the problem of different 
lengths is obvious by simple math.

There the question arises, how 48 and 36 eighths should line up? Do you 
simply want equal length, or should the line with 36 eighths be shorter 
than that with 48 to show the time difference ...??

Regards



Am 20.08.2015 20:07, schrieb Jack Taylor:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to Lilypond, and I appear to have chosen a fiendishly difficult 
> task
> for my first score. It's an example for an academic paper written in 
> LaTeX
> with lilypond-book. I'm trying to input this scanned music snippet
> <http://i.imgur.com/npBqY1V.jpg> - a comparison of two Hungarian folk 
> songs
> - into Lilypond to have it properly typeset. The problem is that the 
> notes
> in the two songs need to line up with each other, but the time 
> signatures
> and rhythms are completely different.
>
> I have managed to make the time signatures for each song independent, 
> but
> I'm having problems making the notes line up (and with stopping the 
> music
> from running off the page). I've dumped my current code at PasteBin
> <http://pastebin.com/Z6kmy6yt> if you want to inspect it (it's not very 
> long).
>
> This code produces output that looks like this.
> <http://i.imgur.com/ITCV26K.jpg> I have tried to investigate ways of 
> making
> the notes line up, but a journey into the depths of the learning 
> manual,
> notation reference and internals reference has left me a little 
> cross-eyed.
> Could anyone give me some pointers on the best way to proceed?
>
> Best,
> Jack Taylor
>
>
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