Re: automatic bar marks possible for ie, 28/4 ?

[Hans Aberg]

On 30 Jan 2007, at 13:08, Adam Good wrote:

> For a piece that has a time signature of 28/4 is it possible to set  
> lilypond to have barlines dropped in automatically?
>
> for example the piece is in 24/8 but the grouping would be 6+4+4 + 6 
> +4+4
>
> so, after 6 beats, a barline, then after 4 beats a barline, after  
> another 4 a barline, etc.........
>
> saves me from having to manually drop in the barlines.

Though one often is sloppy in Western music with meters, there is a  
difference in subaccenting between a piece that alternates between 6  
& 4 time say in the repeated pattern 6, 4, 4, and the meter 6+4+4.  
Which subaccenting do you want?

  Hans Aberg