On Wednesday 12 July 2006 23:01, Paul Scott wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > Erik Sandberg wrote: > >> On 7/9/06, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Erik Sandberg wrote: > >>> In an ideal world we wouldn't need workarounds like this, but it's > >>> useful to have a "fudge factor" \partial. Perhaps we could rename it, > >>> and hide it somewhere in the manual under "advanced tweaks"? :) > >> > >> There is already a property that can be set (Timing.measurePosition > >> IIRC) which is what \partial modifies. > > > > Whoops, I should have realized this. OK, I'm happy -- ugly hacks are > > still possible, but \upbeat is a better term for real uses of > > \partial. :) > > I like \partial as it is. In my experience upbeat is the second half of > a beat where downbeat is the first half of a beat. If it needs to be > changed "pickup(s)" at least means what you seem to be referring to.
Anacrusis seems to be another related word: http://www.music.vt.edu/MUSICDICTIONARY/texta/Anacrusis.html A quick googling suggests that anacrusis and pickup seem to be the most correct terms, and then pickup is better because I have never heard the word anacrusis. (unfortunately I'm not good at English musical terms; I only know that the correct term in Swedish is 'upptakt'.) I think Kieren is right too: it seems that both words can be used for both meanings. However, it seems that pickup is more commonly used in the meaning we want. -- Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
