Re: Problem with \partial

[Graham Percival]

Erik Sandberg wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 July 2006 17:54, Graham Percival wrote:
> > IMO, \partial is just fine.  If there's some confusion, by all means we
> > can clarify the docs.  As always, I gratefully accept any specific
> > recommendations for doc changes.
>
> IMHO using \partial in the middle of a bar is confusing; I think there should 
> be some other command that sets the length of an individual bar. Do you think 
> it would make sense to invent such a command?

I'd rather keep the behavior of \partial -- ie "add an extra X duration 
to this bar", rather than "this bar should have X duration".  That said, 
I suppose we could rename \partial to \addTime or something like that. 
I don't think that \upbeat is appropriate, but we could find some other 
name.

Cheers,
- Graham