2012/9/24 Keith OHara <k-ohara5...@oco.net>: > Graham Percival <graham <at> percival-music.ca> writes: > >> Although mathematicians and programmers are quite >> comfortable with contains with 0 items inside them, this is not a >> particularly intuitive concept (just look at the concept of zero >> in the history of mathematics!)
as a mathematician and programmer I find it natural that a chord may be empty, but I'm confused by it having zero duration - I'd have thought that duration is the property of the chord, not of its elements. >> This would allow people to write either: >> { c'1\< <>\! } >> { c'1\< z\! } >> The non-timed null event z would be inserted after the previous >> note (the c'1) is finished. > > I avoided s1*0 (maybe I subconsciously felt it was cheating) but find <> > extremely useful +1 > and use it a lot. <>\pp^"pizz." \repeat unfold 3 c'4 great to know! so long I used <> only at the end of an expression, and just recently I've struggled with such repeats. does anybody has a similar way (not a function) of marking just the first note with a cautionary accidental? p _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel