> > I'm new to Lilypond. I've been looking for a way to typeset music without > time signatures. This is because I'm transcribing chants that often use > _recitativ_ and rarely follow any strict meter--the rhythm of the chant is > completely text-driven.
Hello Alyozhik, When I'm doing metreless chant from parts of the world where people have names like "Alyozhik," I remove the Bar_number_engraver and Time_signature engraver in the layout block and \set Score.timing = ##f in a global definition. The second takes care of both timing and bar lines. If you look here http://www.holycross-hermitage.com/kliros/lilysource/kliros.ly You will find lots of tricks for making this kind of music, including one that lets you cruise through the whole piece without even adding invisible bars for line breaks. This is defined as \chant. However, it messes up the spacing just a wee little bit, so I almost always go back and put the line breaks when I'm done. БъВъПъ -- Пантелеимонъ, монахъ + + + + + + + + + + Господи Їисусе Хрïсте, помилуй мѧ грѣшнаго. + + + + + + + + + + _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
