Janek Warchoł <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com> writes: >> Decimal numbers are "inexact". With computers, you'll find that 0.5 and >> 0.5 will likely add up to result in 1.0, but you'll be lucky if 0.4 and >> 0.6 add up to 1.0. For music, the concept of simultaneousness is >> sometimes important: if a dynamic change happens one microsecond after >> the attack of a note, it is too late to affect the attack itself. This >> will significantly change the MIDI and, if done judiciously, also the >> print (where losing the direct attachment to a note may cause quite >> different alignments). > > ok, scrap decimals then.
Well, one could convert them into exact fractions. It is our own choice what 0.3 means in LilyPond, but we are likely not doing people a favor if it differs from #0.3 subtly. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
