Hello Laura, On 6 January 2012 18:15, Laura Conrad <lcon...@laymusic.org> wrote: >>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes: > > >> From the manual: > > David> Upbeats > David> ....... > > David> Partial or pick-up measures, such as an anacrusis or upbeat, are > David> entered using the `\partial' command, with the syntax > > David> \partial DURATION > > David> where `DURATION' is the rhythmic length of the remaining > interval of > David> the current measure before the start of the next. > > David> I repeat: the length of the _remaining_ interval of the current > David> measure. So you need \partial 2 here. > > Yes, I've read that section regularly for the last 15 years or so, and > obviously never understood it. I've occasionally managed to get an > anacrusis entered correctly, but since I don't usually use barlines, I > haven't always been able to tell whether Lily understood what I was > saying or not. > > I always thought that if I ever did figure out what it meant, I should > help rewrite it. > > How about: > > \partial DURATION > > where 'DURATION' describes the length of the partial measure. For > example: > > \time 4/4 > \partial 4 > g4 | c c c2 | > > I think including an example in a case like this is always a good idea.
Added as http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2189 -- -- James _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
