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There is limited support for mensural time signatures. The
glyphs are hard-wired to particular time fractions. In other words,
to get a particular mensural signature glyph with the \time n/m
command, n and m have to be chosen according to the
following table
Use the style property of grob TimeSignature to
select ancient time signatures. Supported styles are
neomensural and mensural. The above table uses the
neomensural style. This style is appropriate for the
incipit of transcriptions of mensural pieces. The mensural
style mimics the look of historical printings of the 16th century.
The following examples show the differences in style,
This manual: Time signature gives a general introduction to the use of time signatures.
Ratios of note durations do not change with the time signature. For example, the ratio of 1 brevis = 3 semibrevis (tempus perfectum) must be made by hand, by setting
breveTP = #(ly:make-duration -1 0 3 2)
...
{ c\breveTP f1 }
This sets breveTP to 3/2 times 2 = 3 times a whole note.
The old6/8alt symbol (an alternate symbol for 6/8) is not
addressable with \time. Use a \markup instead
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