Re: \displayLilyMusic and default durations

[tisimst]

I completely agree. Better to be accurate than visually appealing in this 
regard. 

- Abraham

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> On Feb 18, 2015, at 11:00 AM, David Kastrup [via Lilypond] <address@hidden> 
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> Hi, currently 
> \displayLilyMusic { c4 c c c } produces output { c4 c c c }.  I lean 
> towards letting it produce output { c4 c4 c4 c4 }.  Reason: that's 
> what's actually in the data structures of the music.  The machinery that 
> tries to decide when it can leave off the default duration is 
> potentially error-prone and carries state across the expression. 
> 
> More seriously, currently \displayLilyMusic deals badly with 
> { c4 c4 8 8 4 } which gets rendered as { c4 c 8 8 4 } and does 
> consequently not recreate its input.  It would be rather tricky to fix 
> that since by the time the 8 is printed, c and the following space have 
> already been produced.  Instead of making things even more complex here, 
> I consider it saner to become less clever and just print what's in the 
> data, never mind whether it's possibly redundant. 
> 
> Opinions? 
> 
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> David Kastrup 
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