Polymetric section: synchronizing different groups of staves - Revision history

Lemzwerg: New category

2025-11-21T23:36:05Z

New category

← Older revision		Revision as of 23:36, 21 November 2025
Line 95:		Line 95:
	[[Category:Contemporary notation]]		[[Category:Contemporary notation]]
	[[Category:Contexts and engravers]]		[[Category:Contexts and engravers]]
	[[Category:Workaround]][[Category:Snippet]]		[[Category:Workaround]]
			[[Category:Snippet]]

Lemzwerg at 22:57, 21 November 2025

2025-11-21T22:57:39Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:57, 21 November 2025
Line 95:		Line 95:
	[[Category:Contemporary notation]]		[[Category:Contemporary notation]]
	[[Category:Contexts and engravers]]		[[Category:Contexts and engravers]]
	[[Category:Workaround]]		[[Category:Workaround]][[Category:Snippet]]

Jean Abou Samra: Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series

2025-11-16T18:52:48Z

Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series

← Older revision		Revision as of 18:52, 16 November 2025
Line 1:		Line 1:
	This snippet demonstrates how to handle staff grouping and synchronizing when typesetting polymetric ensemble music.		This snippet demonstrates how to handle staff grouping and synchronizing when typesetting polymetric ensemble music.

	<lilypond version="2.24.0" full>		<lilypond version="2.24" full>
	%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=506		%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=506

Jean Abou Samra: Import snippet from LSR

2025-10-26T22:41:28Z

Import snippet from LSR

New page

This snippet demonstrates how to handle staff grouping and synchronizing when typesetting polymetric ensemble music.

<lilypond version="2.24.0" full>
%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=506

%here starts the snippet:

%LSR contributed by John Mandereau, Reinhold Kainhofer on an idea by Werner Lemberg.

\score {
\new StaffGroup <<
\new Staff { c'1 c' c'4 }
\new Staff { \clef bass d4 e f g a1 a4 }
\new Staff \relative c' { \time 3/4 f8 e f g a4 g2.~ g4 f8 e f4 }
\new Staff \relative c'' { a2 d, e c c4 }
>>
\layout {
\context {
\Score
\remove Timing_translator
}
\context {
\StaffGroup
\remove Span_bar_engraver
}
\context {
\Staff
% the order of engravers matters here: e.g. if Timing_translator
% comes after Default_bar_line_engraver, barlines are messed up.
\consists Timing_translator
}
}
}

% Here is a more elaborate example:

vl = \relative c' {
\time 5/4 as8[ c d f]~ f[ as, c d] f[ as] |
\time 3/2 ces[ as f es] r des[ es f] as[ f] r4 |
}

vla = \relative c'' {
\time 2/4 g8[( f] as[ a,!]) |
\time 6/4 r4 e'4( f,) cis'4.( d,) |
r4 e'( f,)
}

vlc = \relative c {
\time 5/4 r2 r2. |
\time 3/2 R1. |
}

cb = \relative c, {
\time 5/4 bes4 c as g f |
\time 3/2 des r g r r d' |
}

\score {
\new StaffGroup = "OuterGroup"
\with { \remove "Span_bar_engraver" }
<<
\new StaffGroup = "UpperGroup"
\with { \remove "System_start_delimiter_engraver" }
<<
\new Staff { \vl }
\new Staff { \vl }
>>

\new Staff
{ \clef "alto" \vla }

\new StaffGroup = "LowerGroup"
\with { \remove "System_start_delimiter_engraver" }
<<
\new Staff { \clef "bass" \vlc }
\new Staff { \clef "bass_8" \cb }
>>
>>
\layout {
\context {
\Score
\remove "Timing_translator"
}
\context {
\Staff
\consists "Timing_translator"
}
}
}

\paper { tagline = ##f }
</lilypond>

[[Category:Rhythms]]
[[Category:Contemporary notation]]
[[Category:Contexts and engravers]]
[[Category:Workaround]]