Re: Should \partial accept music instead of duration?

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

> > What about providing a new command `\upbeat` and moving `\partial`
> > into oblivion?  Compare this to `\tuplet` vs. `\times`.
> >
> >
> >      Werner
> ... Or you could use the brand new command \upbeat when music follows,
> keep \partial, and you don't have to worry about backwards
> compatibility.

This makes a lot of sense IMHO since, linguistically, it's not the music 
that becomes "partial": it's the measure. The music becomes an upbeat 
(at least in most applications of \partial).

Lukas