Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes: > > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:43:46PM -0500, ivan.k.kuznet...@gmail.com wrote: > > As far as I can tell, the only tool to notate "unmetered" > > music is the \cadenzaOn,\cadenzaOff pair of tags. > > Am I right about this, or are there other ways? > > Proportional notation? maybe as well as manually scaling > distances with *15/16 and stuff like that?
Okay, the syntax I am using in my example: #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 16) is an example of proportional notation, no? If not, > > Ideally, there should be no time signature here but > > as far as I can tell, Lilypond requires that all > > "compositions" begin with a time signature. Is this true, > > even for music with no meter? > > No. Remove that engraver. Examples in the manual and in LSR. Thanks; at http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=time+signature I found the syntax: \new Staff \with { \remove "Time_signature_engraver" } { } and that did remove the time signature. Unfortunately, the two systems are _still_ not proportionally identical? Can someone direct me on how to make two more systems exactly proportionally identical? Thanks! Appended is what I have so far. \version "2.12.2" \include "english.ly" #(set-global-staff-size 19) % Default is 20 \paper{ #(set-paper-size "letter") left-margin = 5\mm % Default is 10\mm line-width = 200\mm print-page-number = ##f print-first-page-number = ##f } \score { \new PianoStaff << \new Staff = "up" \with { \remove "Time_signature_engraver" } { \clef treble \cadenzaOn \autoBeamOn \change Staff = "down" g,1 a,1 b,1 c1 d1 e1 f1 g1 a1 b1 \change Staff = "up" c'1 d'1 e'1 f'1 g'1 a'1 b'1 c''1 d''1 e''1 \bar "" % Reference, pg. 48 \break \change Staff = "down" g,1 a,1 b,1 c1 d1 e1 f1 g1 a1 b1 \change Staff = "up" c'1 d'1 e'1 f'1 g'1 a'1 b'1 c''1 d''1 e''1 \cadenzaOff } \new Staff = "down" \with { \remove "Time_signature_engraver" } { \clef bass \cadenzaOn s1-"G" s1-"A" s1-"B" s1-"C" s1-"D" s1-"E" s1-"F" s1-"G" s1-"A" s1-"B" s1-"C" s1-"D" s1-"E" s1-"F" s1-"G" s1-"A" s1-"B" s1-"C" s1-"D" s1-"E" \bar "" % Reference, pg. 48 \break s1-"G" s1-"A" s1-"B" s1-"C" s1-"D" s1-"E" s1-"F" s1-"G" s1-"A" s1-"B" s1-"C" s1-"D" s1-"E" s1-"F" s1-"G" s1-"A" s1-"B" s1-"C" s1-"D" s1-"E" \cadenzaOff } >> \layout { indent = 0.0 \context { \Score \override SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 16) } } } _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user