Re: [Spam??] repeated time signatures

[Trevor Daniels]

Urs Liska wrote Monday, April 29, 2013 3:50 PM


> Am 29.04.2013 16:46, schrieb Trevor Daniels:
>
>> Urs Liska wrote  Monday, April 29, 2013 3:02 PM
>>
>>> The NR (1.2.3 "Displaying Rhythms") states that time signatures "are
>>> printed at the beginning of a piece and whenever the time signature
>>> changes."
>>>
>>> But if I write
>>>
>>> music = {
>>>    \time 3/4
>>>    R2.*4
>>>    \time 3/4
>>>    R2.
>>> }
>>>
>>> the time signature is printed a second time although it doesn't change
>>> (to my understanding)
>> Rather surprisingly there is no bug report describing this, although it
>> has been present since the beaming behaviour was changed several
>> years ago.
>>
>>> a) Is this intended behaviour? And if yes, shouldn't it be documented
>>
>> I don't think it is intended, so it should be recorded as a bug.
>> Copying to bug list for bug squad.
>
> I think, David Nalesnik's comment is valid.
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-04/msg00852.html
> 
> So I think the behaviour shouldn't be changed, but the documentation.

I read the opposite in David's comment.  The documentation correctly
says what should happen, and what used to happen prior to around 2010,
but since then the code has behaved incorrectly IMHO.  So the
bug report should record the incorrect behaviour of the code.  As we don't
usually document buggy behaviour, the docs should not be changed,
unless, maybe, to remove the statement either way.

Trevor