Re: User comments on R shorthand

[Nick Baskin]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi James,

All good points!

> R2 (a full measure rest in 2/4 time)
> R2*2 (two full measure rests in 2/4 time)
> R*2 (two full measure rests in any meter)

Love it.

Cheers,
Kieren.

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I'm not sure this would work, actually. If I understand correctly, R currently behaves like any other LilyPond music event when it comes to duration, i.e. unless otherwise specified, it takes the value of the preceding note/rest. So if you had something like

\time 2/4

R2 |

R |

\time 4/4

R*2 |

there would be some ambiguity as to what "R*2" should print out, yes? The "R" prints out a single full-measure rest in 2/4; why would "R*2" in this case print out two measures of full-measure rest in 4/4 (quadrupling the length of the previous "R") instead of one measure (doubling the length of the previous "R")?

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