Thank you Simon for the "cheat", this is exactly what I wanted to know :)
g.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de>
wrote:
> On 22.01.2016 19:16, Gianmaria Lari wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> the lilypond default note duration is 1/4. For example if I write
>>
>> { a b }
>>
>> lilypond generates two quarter notes. There is any way to set the
>> _default_ note value to another value for example to 1/8 so that the
>> previous code would generate two 1/8 notes?
>>
>
> I don’t know of a ‘proper’ way. This is something which is done by the
> parser, and can’t be easily customised. However, there is a ‘cheat’: :-)
>
> %%%%%%
> \version "2.19.35"
> \void { 8 } % for 2.18., use { c8 } or whatever pitch
> { c' }
> %%%%%%
>
> \void means that the argument is interpreted, but not returned. Thus, Lily
> won’t print the first music expression, but when the parser reads the
> second music expression and doesn’t find a duration, he will use the last
> one he encountered. Normally, that would be an undesired side effect, but
> here it helps.
>
> HTH, Simon
>
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