Walt North <waltno...@gmail.com> writes:
> Thank you. I will try this. It was for maintenance reasons I was
> avoiding the skip because I did not realize it could be used that
> way. I thought it had to be a hard number and that would be a pain to
> maintain. After reading your reply I looked at the documentation
> again and found this:
>
> When the argument to|\skip|is music, the default duration of the
> following note is implicitly set by the last note of the argument.
>
> I will give this a try.
It would be a very bad idea when this would be the case, but looking at
the code it does not appear to be so. Instead when the argument to
\skip is _spelled-out_ music, like with any spelled-out music the last
written duration is the default for further entry.
In short, this is not a feature of \skip but of the parser. There is
some ambiguity in that since one might wonder what
\skip 2.
does since 2. can be _either_ a duration (not changing the default
duration for following music) _or_ music (a repeat pitch with the given
duration). The parser takes it as a duration.
I seem to remember that the original implementation would have taken it
as music, period, and I protested that non-backward-compatible behavior.
--
David Kastrup
