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

[Carl Sorensen]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 2:41 PM Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com> wrote:

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

The argument to \partial is a duration.

The * syntax is described here:

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/writing-rhythms#scaling-durations

The 16*5 means a duration of 1/16 multiplied by 5 which is 5/16, exactly what you wanted.

Thanks,

Carl