I completely agree. Better to be accurate than visually appealing in this
regard.
- Abraham
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> On Feb 18, 2015, at 11:00 AM, David Kastrup [via Lilypond]
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>
> Hi, currently
> \displayLilyMusic { c4 c c c } produces output { c4 c c c }. I lean
> towards letting it produce output { c4 c4 c4 c4 }. Reason: that's
> what's actually in the data structures of the music. The machinery that
> tries to decide when it can leave off the default duration is
> potentially error-prone and carries state across the expression.
>
> More seriously, currently \displayLilyMusic deals badly with
> { c4 c4 8 8 4 } which gets rendered as { c4 c 8 8 4 } and does
> consequently not recreate its input. It would be rather tricky to fix
> that since by the time the 8 is printed, c and the following space have
> already been produced. Instead of making things even more complex here,
> I consider it saner to become less clever and just print what's in the
> data, never mind whether it's possibly redundant.
>
> Opinions?
>
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