TL;DR How do I engrave an alternating time signature and an initial cue clef?
Scriabin has a prelude where he has written a time signature as alternating 5/8 and 4/8 time. After the initial one, no other time signatures are written. I have figured out a way to engrave this with help from a LSR entry. Also, the first notes in the right hand are in bass clef. I want to engrave the initial clef in the right hand as treble, then after the time signature have a cue bass clef. Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote a solution for that (thanks!) The problem is those two solutions don't work together. (Looking at them, I can see why they wouldn't.) I am not clever enough to merge the two solutions or think of a third. Can anyone help me? I've attached a screenshot of what I'm trying to engrave. Also attached is my attempt to use the two solutions, but without success. -- Knute Snortum
\version "2.24.2" %%% Set queing bass clef after initial treble clef % Append markup in the text property to the grob #(define (append-markup grob old-stencil) (ly:stencil-combine-at-edge old-stencil X RIGHT (ly:text-interface::print grob))) trebleToBass = { \clef bass % Fake staff clef appearance \once \override Staff.Clef.glyph-name = "clefs.G" \once \override Staff.Clef.Y-offset = -1 % Make sure any key signatures will printed with respect to % correct middle c position expected for treble clef \once \set Staff.middleCClefPosition = -6 % Append change clef to the time signature \once \override Staff.TimeSignature.text = \markup { \hspace #1.2 \raise #1 \musicglyph "clefs.F_change" } \once \override Staff.TimeSignature.stencil = #(lambda (grob) (append-markup grob (ly:time-signature::print grob))) } %%% Alternating time #(define ((time-alternate-time upa downa upb downb) grob) (grob-interpret-markup grob (markup #:override '(baseline-skip . 0) #:number (#:line ( (#:center-column (upa downa)) (#:center-column (upb downb))))))) upper = \relative { \trebleToBass \key bes \minor \partial 8 c'8 \repeat unfold 4 { c8 c c c c | c c c c | } } lower = \relative { \key bes \minor \clef bass \partial 8 c8 \repeat unfold 4 { c8 c c c c | c c c c | } } timeSignatures = { \override Score.TimeSignature.stencil = #(time-alternate-time "5" "8" "4" "8") \time 5/8 \partial 8 s8 \override Score.TimeSignature.stencil = ##f \repeat unfold 4 { \time 5/8 s4. s4 | \time 4/8 s2 | } } \score { \new PianoStaff << \new Staff \upper \new Staff \lower \new Devnull \timeSignatures >> }