Re: Duration lines and dots

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 10/10/2022 à 11:48, Thomas Morley a écrit :
> The main porpose for duration lines is graphical notation as shown in
> NR 2.8.3 Graphical notation.
> I.e. no stems, flags, beams, dots and the NoteHead is always a filled
> black one (duration-log = 2).
> The duration line always starts inside the note head.
> Though the user should be able to use something like d'4. (and omit
> the dots), although it would be prferable to use d'4*3/2.
> Thus the default for left.start-at-dot is #f.
>
> Nevertheless, there are cases where this fundamental approach is mixed
> with elements of traditional notations.
> Then it's up to the user to specify what he wants: beams, flags, dots,
> stems, note heads...
> I tried to cater for these cases as well.
>
> So far my thought while implementing DurationLine.
> Though, I'm open for other thoughts.



OK, thanks for the explanation, I understand better now.
The default makes sense then, at least for the primary use case.

Cheers,
Jean