Hi all,
please note that \partial or \upbeat, whatever you call it, has
musicologically a special meaning: the first, incomplete bar, and the last
bar of a piece or of a major section of a piece (typically the bar before
the next "||" bar glyph) should sum up to a complete bar.
For example, if a song with 4/4 meter starts with "\partial 4 f4", the
last bar should, by convention, have a total length of 3 quarter notes.
Having said that, you never should use "\partial" or "\upbeat" somewhere
within a piece. If lily nevertheless accepts it within a piece without
issuing an error or warning, I consider this a bug.
Having a bar within a piece that differs in length from the foreassigned
meter is a different concept.
Greetings,
Juergen
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Graham Percival wrote:
Erik Sandberg wrote:
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 17:54, Graham Percival wrote:
IMO, \partial is just fine. If there's some confusion, by all means we
can clarify the docs. As always, I gratefully accept any specific
recommendations for doc changes.
IMHO using \partial in the middle of a bar is confusing; I think there
should be some other command that sets the length of an individual bar. Do
you think it would make sense to invent such a command?
I'd rather keep the behavior of \partial -- ie "add an extra X duration to
this bar", rather than "this bar should have X duration". That said, I
suppose we could rename \partial to \addTime or something like that. I don't
think that \upbeat is appropriate, but we could find some other name.
Cheers,
- Graham
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