I'm still baffled by it. After experimentation, I found this worked: \time 3/4 \partial 1 c4 |
But "1"? 1 what? The pickup is a 2, and if I do this barcheck passes, as I expect: \time 3/4 c2 c4 | So from the doc examples I'd expect "\partial 2" to indicate a half/note pickup, but it fails. https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/106875/how-to-write-a-pickup-measure-with-5-16-duration-in-lilypond has some examples using the star operator, but I haven't found any ref for how to specify rationals. I don't really understand what's on the left and right of the "*", and I don't understand if the fractions are true fractions, or note fractions. Not sure what the right term for that, but in 3/4 time there are 3 1/4 notes in a whole bar, so the pickup in above is 2/3 of a bar, but is two 1/4 notes, or one 1/2 note (which takes 2/3 of the bar). I tried to use both approaches, no luck. These fails the bar check, an attempt at saying 2 quarter notes: \partial 2*1/4 c'4 | This is syntax failure: \partial 2/3 c'4 | wrong type for argument 1. Expecting duration, found (cons 2 3) I've searched for docs on the duration syntax, but I'm not succeeding yet. Can someone point me to docs, or perhaps explain the syntax? https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/learning/advanced-rhythmic-commands#partial-measure as an example, just has a couple examples, but not a complete syntax. Thank you, Sam
