On Tue 01 May 2018 at 09:45:47 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > On 1 May 2018 at 09:39, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > > > Gianmaria Lari <gianmarial...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > --- Exceptions --- > > > Making "s8 8 8" acting differently than "c8 8 8" introduce an > > > exception. > > > > Not "introduces" but "constitutes" since there was never a state with > > valid equal behavior. > > > > > Exceptions make things a bit "more difficult" and in my opinion should > > > be introduced carefully thinking if they worth it. As I told, I don't > > > have the competence to say if this is the case, but I found useful > > > point it out. > > > > One region where isolated durations are really useful is for drum tracks > > consisting of only one drum "pitch" for longer stretches. Those tend to > > be written with notes and rests interspersed. In that case it may be > > helpful not to have to repeat the drum name. > > > > Sure.
Yes, that's the reason I thought it might have been introduced for, hence "snare" in my example. I hadn't really thought of your use case of using it for spacer "riffs" to place your annotations, but only of rests where one might not expect riffs of silence. > > It also might be worth noting that s8 8 8 cannot really be made equal in > > behavior to \skip 8 8 8 (or other music function calls) so it is more > > the question of where to draw the line rather than whether to draw a > > line at all. > > > I'm sorry I don't understand your last paragraph. \skip is a different animal from s but that's sometimes disguised by the fact that you can substitute one for the other in particular cases. But because it's a command, it always expects a duration and that duration does not participate at all in what you've called "propagation". As this is LP, one can always confuse oneself by writing \skip 2 but where I've (rarely) had to use them, I write \skip2 . Further confusion might occur where LP ignores the duration of the \skip yet it still has to be written. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
