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Re: Creating Musical Examples without Meter


From: Graham Percival
Subject: Re: Creating Musical Examples without Meter
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:19:01 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:43:46PM -0500, address@hidden 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?

>   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.

- Graham



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