Re: s or \skip - bug or expectable behaviour?

[David Kastrup]

Alexander Kobel <address@hidden> writes:

> The following looks like fairly a minimal example for the behaviour
> you encountered.
>
> NR 1.2.2, "Invisible rests", says that "\skip requires an explicit
> duration".  But it is not mentioned / unspecified that this duration
> argument counterintuitively is not remembered for the following
> chords, contrary to the "s" spacer rests.

I don't see anything counterintuitive.  s is part of the input syntax,
\skip is a macro taking an explicit duration as argument.

I should be rather surprised if the latter changed the meaning of
following music input.

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David Kastrup