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

[-Eluze]

Carl Sorensen-3 wrote:
> 
> 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 for all these clarifications - i think i was confused by the fact
that you have 

pitch | rest | spacer rest | \skip 

followed by a duration ( 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 … or even \longa or \breve)

which itself can be modified with multiplyers or dividers (* | /), from
where the "final duration" results!

in the case of pitch | rest | spacer rest this "final duration" is picked up
by the following note and not the "primary duration".

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