Re: NR 1.2.3 Upbeats: confusing explanation of measurePosition

[Colin Hall]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 10:27:13AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> > as a simple user I wish only to know which numbers I may use with the
> > function ly:make-moment (to define the property measurePosition ) -
> > without running into problemsof any kind!
> 
> Two integers (for numerator and denominator of a main moment fraction),
> or four integers (the same with grace timing), or one rational (for the
> main moment) or two rationals (for main and grace moment).
> 
> If you think that two integers and two rationals can't be told apart,
> you'd be right, but denominators are always positive and grace timings
> are always non-positive.
> 
> So basically everything that you'd think should work with ly:make-moment
> will.  I'd prefer using rationals myself.

I'm posting so that the bug squad can see this has been dealt with.

A tracker has been created for this issue:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3078

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall