One common example where people today use it in the middle of a score
is repeats, where the repeat sign is in the middle of a bar
(especially in combination with prima/secunda volta). Currently,
LilyPond doesn't automatically take this into account. Of course, the
best solution in this situation would be if LilyPond treated the
measure position correctly for repeats.
/Mats
Quoting Juergen Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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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