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The symbol of the time signature can be customized with the style property. Setting it to #'() uses fraction style for 4/4 and 2/2 time.

To typeset beams grouped 3-4-3-2 in 12/8 it is necessary first to override the default beam endings in 12/8, and then to set up the new beaming endings:

<p>NR 1.7 Editorial annotations <p>Beethoven, Op. 31, No. 3<br> Piano sonata 18, Movt. II, Scherzo<br> Measures 9&ndash;14

A contemporary glissando without a final note can be typeset using a hidden note and cadenza timing.

Text crescendi (or decrescendi, ritardandi, etc.) show a dashed line by default. To hide this spanner line, simply set the dash-period of DynamicTextSpanner (or TextSpanner if you use one for rit.) to a negative value.

This scheme code puts parentheses around note heads and recalculates the grob size and adjusts the stem position.

In a simple time signature of 2/2 or 4/4, 8th notes are beamed by default as two sets of four.

Using a macro which overrides the autobeaming behavior, this snippet changes the beaming to quarter note beats.

Although s skips cannot be used in \lyricmode (it is taken to be a literal s, not a space), double quotes ("") or underscores (_) are available.

So for example:

This form of notation is used for Psalm chant, where verses aren't always the same length.

If you wish to typeset |., etc, style spanbars on a ChoirStaff, you can add the span_bar_engraver, and instruct it to omit the |-style bars. In this example a new context, SemiChoirStaff, is created to achieve this.