Re: isolated durations after isolated pitches - intended behavior?

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 23/03/2022 à 22:59, Nikolai Hedler a écrit :
> Hello!
>
> First of all, thanks to all the developers for their continued efforts!
>
> I am coming back to LIlypond after a couple years away, and found the
> addition of unpitched durations an interesting shorthand feature, but
> encountered a behavior I didn't expect. It seems that a pitch without
> explicit duration followed by an isolated duration (e.g. c8 c 4) will be
> treated as a single note (i.e. interpreted as c8 c4 instead of c8 c8 c4).
> Is this a specific choice or a bug?
>
> - Nikolai



A choice. LilyPond is whitespace-insensitive. Stuff like c8 c 4
was already valid before unpitched durations were implemented,
so changing the meaning would not have been easy for existing
scores, nor would it have fitted well with the rest of the LilyPond
syntax.

Best,
Jean