Re: \displayLilyMusic and default durations

[Urs Liska]

Am 18.02.2015 um 19:00 schrieb David Kastrup:
> 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?

I agree.
{ c4 c c c } could be even considered as potentially misleading.

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