On 22/02/2021 06:02, Andrew Bernard wrote:
Its not a bug. It's just the syntax. A 16 without a note will produce a
note, not a rest, even after a rest. There would be a dozen different
possibilities for syntax, but that's how it is.
Principle of least surprise. As a player, a rest is a note without
sound, as a programmer I think it should go back to whatever was most
recently made explicit (ie the rest).
Is it that hard to make the computer program emit an r for a rest?
People don't normally put ties on rests - does not quite make sense, as
a ties means hold the note and don't articulate, whereas silence cant be
articulated anýway.
How easy is it to make the program just not take advantage of this
shortcut? Just emit the note every time. I've been using lilypond for
over 15 years and I think this is a pretty recent addition.
Andrew
Cheers,
Wol
