On Thursday 01 September 2005 16.41, Peter Quarrell wrote: > I just downloaded Lilypond in order to improve the printing of psalm chants > in our church Sunday news sheet. We use a psalm-chant system created by > one of our congregation. The normal chant covers 2 verses of the psalm, > with 10 crotchet beats per half verse. The chant's 4 quarter-verses are > therefore printed as 4 bars, each of 10 crotchet beats. Each bar is a > semibreve, followed by 2 crotchets, followed by another semibreve. > > We don't actually want a time-signature in the output (because, like the > traditional Anglican chant, timing doesn't mean anything when you are > chanting), but that doesn't matter.
In addition to Mats' suggestion, you could also be interested in the \cadenzaOn and \cadenzaOff commands. See the manual for details. > Although it is an odd > time-signature to want, it ought to be possible to implement it. Why does > it not work? The best I have been able to get has been 6/4, and using > PaintShop Pro to remove or shift the bar-lines has produced a messy result. If you need postprocessing, I'd recommend you to let lilypond produce SVG output, and modify it with a vector drawing program (if you have one). Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
