On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 10:50 AM Raphael Mankin <r...@mankin.org.uk> wrote:

> I have music with alternate bars in 3/4 and 6/8. The usual way to
> indicate this is to  put both  time signatures at the start, but  I can
> find  no way to do this.
>
> I have tried "\time 3/4 <> \time 6/8", but I only get the last one.
>
> Note, this  is not a compound time of 3/4+6/8, but alternating time
> signatures.
>

I think this is what you are looking for.  I'm not sure where I found the
code so I can't give credit to its author:

%%%
#(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)))))))

% and use it like this (5/8, 4/8 in this case):

  \override Score.TimeSignature.stencil =
    #(time-alternate-time "5" "8" "4" "8")

%%%


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Knute Snortum

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