Re: isolated durations after isolated pitches - intended behavior?

[Nikolai Hedler]

Interesting! I have been spending some time working in Python, and would
not have expected that to be valid syntax prior to the new function, but I
also didn't expect e.g. c2c4 to be valid either. Thanks for the quick
response!

- Nikolai


On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 6:02 PM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:

> 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
>
>