Re: Should \partial accept music instead of duration?

[Luca Fascione]

What if you rotate them instead?
Rename the current \partial \partialDuration,
convert.ly now is just s/partial/partialDuration/
and \partial always takes music from now on

It's the same as Werner said, but keeps the good name

L

On Sun, 20 Mar 2022, 08:24 Werner LEMBERG, <wl@gnu.org> wrote:

>
> >>>>> A convert-ly rule would probably not be possible given the
> >>>>> limited power of regular expressions.  As such, \partial might
> >>>>> need to support both duration and music arguments.  Initially I
> >>>>> thought this might not be possible, given that a naked duration
> >>>>> can be treated as music; but the following does seem to work:
> >>
> >> ...
> >> I wouldn't want to have to explain to users why these turn out
> >> different.
> >> \score {
> >>   \fixed c' {
> >>     \partial 4. 4.
> >>   }
> >> }
> >> \score {
> >>   \fixed c' {
> >>     \partial c4. c4.
> >>   }
> >> }
> >>
> >
> > Fair point, though the intention here would be that backwards
> > compatibility would only need to exist for a time.  A warning could
> > be issued whenever a user applies the older syntax; this would
> > inform the user of the impending breaking change while still
> > allowing existing code to compile.  When it is convenient, a future
> > release would only support music as the argument.
>
> What about providing a new command `\upbeat` and moving `\partial`
> into oblivion?  Compare this to `\tuplet` vs. `\times`.
>
>
>     Werner
>
>