On Wednesday 05 July 2006 17:54, Graham Percival wrote:
> Erik Sandberg wrote:
> > Perhpaps \partial should be renamed to \upbeat or similar, in order to
> > prevent this kind of confusion? (\partial only indicates that a bar is
> > shortened, while \upbeat indicates that the command only is releva
Erik Sandberg wrote:
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 17:54, Graham Percival wrote:
IMO, \partial is just fine. If there's some confusion, by all means we
can clarify the docs. As always, I gratefully accept any specific
recommendations for doc changes.
IMHO using \partial in the middle of a bar is
Hi all,
please note that \partial or \upbeat, whatever you call it, has
musicologically a special meaning: the first, incomplete bar, and the last
bar of a piece or of a major section of a piece (typically the bar before
the next "||" bar glyph) should sum up to a complete bar.
For example,
Graham,
"General improvements to "working on lilypond files", focusing on
teaching users how to write files that are easier to update. Not that
it will do any good, since nobody reads the manual anyway."
I was not aware that you underestimate the relevance of your work so
much. It is a splendid
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Mark Van den Borre wrote:
Graham,
"General improvements to "working on lilypond files", focusing on
teaching users how to write files that are easier to update. Not that
it will do any good, since nobody reads the manual anyway."
I was not aware that you underestimate the
I'd vote for tweakBarLength. That makes a lot of sense, and having a
choice of that or partial means that people can use what works for them.
For example, I'm used to thinking of "the first bar" as being where the
music starts. If you use \partial, that becomes the nought-th bar.
That said, isn't
One common example where people today use it in the middle of a score
is repeats, where the repeat sign is in the middle of a bar
(especially in combination with prima/secunda volta). Currently,
LilyPond doesn't automatically take this into account. Of course, the
best solution in this situation
On 7/6/06, Juergen Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Mark Van den Borre wrote:
> Graham,
>
> "General improvements to "working on lilypond files", focusing on
> teaching users how to write files that are easier to update. Not that
> it will do any good, since nobody reads th
Erik Sandberg schreef:
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 13:08, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
Erik Sandberg schreef:
The attached patch makes my proposed change to sequential-iterators, and
uses this to clean up multi measure rests. The patch obsoletes the
following: - glue-mm-rests
- MultiMeasureRestMusicGrou
