Reviewers: Graham Percival, Jean-Charles,
Message:
Thanks for the review!
https://codereview.appspot.com/8538050/diff/1/Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely
File Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely (right):
https://codereview.appspot.com/8538050/diff/1/Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely#newcode1422
Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely:1422: is usually positive and
indicates how much of the measure has passed
On 2013/04/21 09:25:49, Jean-Charles wrote:
Sorry, but "minus 1/8" seems to me to be a negative value?
It is indeed! But measurePosition is _usually_ positive.
It is only negative when manually set so by \partial. Is
the following sentence not clear enough?
Description:
Doc: expand explanation of negative measurePosition (3080)
based on text provided by Federico Bruni
Please review this at https://codereview.appspot.com/8538050/
Affected files:
M Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely
Index: Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely
diff --git a/Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely
b/Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely
index
cc69b76764a820681c9c64d48621526d197d949b..cf55675ec39b034f33028026dff5627eb2b8cbcc
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--- a/Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely
+++ b/Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely
@@ -1404,13 +1404,13 @@ The @var{duration} can be any value less than a
full measure:
r4 e8 | a4 c8 b c4 |
@end lilypond
-The @code{\partial @var{duration}} can also be written as;
+@code{\partial @var{duration}} can also be written as:
@example
\set Timing.measurePosition -@var{duration}
@end example
-So @code{\partial 8} becomes:
+So the first example above could be written:
@lilypond[quote,verbatim,relative=1]
\time 3/4
@@ -1418,11 +1418,12 @@ So @code{\partial 8} becomes:
e8 | a4 c8 b c4 |
@end lilypond
-The property @code{measurePosition} contains a rational number
-indicating how much of the measure has passed at this point. Note
-that this is set to a negative number by the @code{\partial} command:
-i.e., @code{\partial 4} is internally translated to @w{@code{-4}},
-meaning @qq{there is a quarter note left in the measure.}
+The property @code{measurePosition} contains a rational number, which
+is usually positive and indicates how much of the measure has passed
+at this point. The @code{\partial @var{duration}} command sets it to
+a negative number, when it has a different meaning: it then says that
+the current (first) bar will be @emph{preceded} by a bar 0 (the partial
+bar) with a duration given by @var{duration}.
@seealso
Music Glossary:
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