A humble suggestion.... Please educate me if there is already a way to do this, but it appears that 'q' as a shorthand for the repetition of the previous note(s) only works for chords. It would be handy if it worked for single notes also, specifically in ties.
\time 12/8 \partial 8 aes8 des,4. ~ q4 aes'8 d,4. ~ q4 a'8 des,4. ~ q4 aes'8 d,4. ~ q4 a'8 For that matter, it would be nice (though I suspect more syntactically problematic) for subsequent notes in ties to only require a duration, since by definition the pitch has already been specified in the first note of the tie. This might be written as: \time 12/8 \partial 8 aes8 des,4.~4 aes'8 d,4.~4 a'8 des,4.~4 aes'8 d,4.~4 a'8 Flipping that around, it might (or might not, I'm not qualified to say) be syntactically convenient to define a 'compound duration' as one that includes two or more simple durations separated by tildes. In the above example, the pitch is 'des,' and the duration is '4.~4'. In 4/4 time, 'a2' takes up the same time as 'a4~4' but of course in the notation, 'a4~4' is two notes tied, and 'a2' is a single note. I think this helps the readability to show that it is one pitch of a given duration tied to a second duration, and conceivably more: Here the long C has a duration of '1~1~2~4~8', and the final c has an implied duration of 8 since that is the duration of the note preceding it in the notation. \time 4/4 \partial 16 c16 c1~1~2~4~8 c Instead of the current syntax: \time 4/4 \partial 16 c16 c1~c1~c2~c4~c8 c In chordmode: \time 4/4 bes4~16:m7 ees16~8:7 aes2:maj7 Perhaps this idea has plenty of holes, but I think I would enjoy learning from the discussion. Thank you for your time, Jim _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
