Re: Problem with \partial

[Juergen Reuter]

Hi all,

please note that \partial or \upbeat, whatever you call it, has 
musicologically a special meaning: the first, incomplete bar, and the last 
bar of a piece or of a major section of a piece (typically the bar before 
the next "||" bar glyph) should sum up to a complete bar.

For example, if a song with 4/4 meter starts with "\partial 4 f4", the 
last bar should, by convention, have a total length of 3 quarter notes. 
Having said that, you never should use "\partial" or "\upbeat" somewhere 
within a piece.  If lily nevertheless accepts it within a piece without 
issuing an error or warning, I consider this a bug.

Having a bar within a piece that differs in length from the foreassigned 
meter is a different concept.

Greetings,
Juergen


On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Graham Percival wrote:

> 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
>
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