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

[Carl Sorensen]

On 2/2/10 1:31 AM, "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Alexander Kobel <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> 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.

Thank you for this insight, David.  I revised NR 1.2.2, and I didn't catch
that difference.

One who is not a lilypond developer might not understand the difference
between s (which is a lilypond note that produces no output) and \skip
(which is a not a lilypond note, and hence does not reset the default
duration).  

A doc change has been pushed to git.

Thanks,

Carl