On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM James Harkins <jamshar...@zoho.com> wrote:
> ---- On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 03:13:41 +0800 Carl Sorensen <
> carl.d.soren...@gmail.com> wrote ---
> > I'd suggest that you make a minimal example that uses variables, and see
> if the use of variables is the issue. I'd be surprised if that is the
> case. But IMO you should test your hypotheses.
>
> OK.
>
> \version "2.24.3"
> \language "english"
>
> minimalExampleVariableOne = \relative c' {
> \time 3/4
> c4 d e
> \time 4/4
> f g a b
> }
>
> minimalExampleVariableTwo = \relative c' {
> \time 4/4
> c4 d e
> \time 3/4
> f g a b
> }
>
> \score { <<
> \new Staff \minimalExampleVariableOne
> \new Staff \minimalExampleVariableTwo
> >>
> \layout {
> \enablePolymeter
> }
> }
>
> Transcript:
>
> Starting lilypond 2.24.3 [test-poly-vars-main.ly]...
> Processing `......snip....../test-poly-vars-main.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music...
> ......./test-poly-vars.ly:16:3: warning: mid-measure time signature
> without \partial
>
> \time 3/4
>
> Also, the printed output does not reflect polymeter (attached) -- 3/4 in
> the lower staff should occur one beat later.
>
> (Really, this is for a section of ad-lib ordering of some chunks of
> notation, where Gould recommends big [ brackets ] with barlines to denote
> the units to be reordered. Since the units in different instruments are of
> different lengths, I can probably just hide the barlines in different
> places... will have to see how that lines up. Maybe set 1/4 time lol)
>
> In any case, \enablePolymeter is a documented feature, and it appears to
> be incompatible (at least in 2.24) with a common way of structuring
> ensemble score/parts projects. I assume that's a bug, then.
>
I don't think \enablePolymeter is supposed to allow measures that don't
have the correct number of beats in them. It's supposed to allow different
time signatures in different staves to line up in a score. You still need
\partial to signal that a measure has fewer beats than the time signature.
--
Knute Snortum
