Re: How to break timing coordination between my ossia and main staffs?

[Mats Bengtsson]

I hope you have read the section on "Polymetric notation". It shows several
methods to modify the synchronization between staves.

Yet another alternative is to use ^\markup{\score{...}}

  /Mats

Rick Hansen (aka RickH) wrote:
> I'm using a user-created staff context to "accepts" ossia notes mid-stream
> (see OssiaUnsynchronized below).
>
> I have a piece where my ossia length will have a different number of
> measures than the main staff (more or fewer).  So for example if the ossia
> passage has 2 measures to the main staffs 1 measure I would like the ossia
> and main staffs to be oblivious to each others timing but each staff still
> know its own timing.  Below is an example where I would want to see a 2
> measure ossia spread under the main score freely (IOW I dont want it to add
> the blank measure to the main staff):
>
> How can I make my ossia context totally oblivious to the timing that is
> going on in the main score?  So that the ossia does it's own thing and the
> main staff does it's own thing measure-wise.
>
> I tried some hacking but still could not get what I wanted.
>
> Eventually I want my template to have 2 different kind of ossia contexts
> (see OssiaUnsynchronized and OssiaSynchronized below), one with coordinated
> timing (OssiaSynchronized) and one that is free form and ignores the main
> staff timing (OssiaUnsynchronized the object of my question).  The latter
> should simply render a chunk of music without affecting the main staff at
> all (my how-to question).
>
>
>
> Thanks for any help, the example below will run as-is:.
>
>
> %EXAMPLE BEGIN
>
> \version "2.9.17"
> \include "english.ly"
>
> % Music file
>
> myMusic = \relative c'' {
> | e4 e e e
> %\set timing = ##f
> << { a b c d } \context OssiaUnsynchronized { a b c d d c b a } >>
> %\set timing = ##t
> | b b b b
> }
>
> % Template file
>
> \score {
>
>    \myMusic
>
>    \layout {
>       \context { \Score
>          \remove Span_bar_engraver
>          \override SpanBar #'break-visibility = #center-invisible
>          \remove   System_start_delimiter_engraver
>          \accepts  "OssiaUnsynchronized"
>          \accepts  "OssiaSynchronized"
>       }
>
>       \context { \Staff
>          \name "OssiaUnsynchronized"
>          \remove "Clef_engraver"
>          \remove "Time_signature_engraver"
>          \remove "Key_engraver"
>          \remove "Timing_translator"
>       }
>
>       \context { \Staff
>          \name "OssiaSynchronized"
>          \remove "Clef_engraver"
>          \remove "Time_signature_engraver"
>          \remove "Key_engraver"
>       }
>    }
>
> }
>
>
> % EXAMPLE END
>
>
>
>   

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