Re: can someone point me to complete documentation for the partial command argument syntax?

[Sam Roberts]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 1:01 PM David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> You probably are using \partial wrong: its argument does not specify how
> long it is _since_ a full bar but how long it is _to_ a full bar.

Thank you, that was definitely a problem, I hadn't understood that.

For my more general understanding, is there documentation anywhere for
the syntax of the argument to partial? Something that will explain the
* syntax shown on this page?

https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/106875/how-to-write-a-pickup-measure-with-5-16-duration-in-lilypond

Thanks,
Sam