2008/4/30 Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>  Mats> A quarter note is represented as 1/4, a dotted half note as 3/4,
>  Mats> ...  Obviously it makes sense to add and subtract moments, but
>  Mats> since they internally are represented as rational numbers, you
>  Mats> also get multiplication and division for free.
>
>  So you're saying a lilypond  moment is a duration of musical time, not an
>  instant in musical time?   Is there a function to translate from
>  lilypond moment to lilypond duration and back?

Moments are used interchangeably for points and durations.  There is a
fine point, though; Moment is really a tuple of rationals, with the
first being the 'main' time, and the 2nd the 'grace' time.


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Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen


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