Re: Absolute Beginners - Chapter One

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Am 2006-12-28 um 02:44 schrieb Manuel:

> Insert double bars and repeats like this:
>
> \bar "|:"
>
> b c d e
>
> \bar ":|:"
>
> f g a b
>
> \bar ":|"

Don't you think \repeat{} makes more sense?
(I prefer logical over visual markup.)

> And last but not least in our little first beginners' chapter,  
> we'll give you the tool for beginning your melodies with an  
> anacrusis, also known as "upbeat" or "pickup". This is the
>
> \partial
>
> command. If you need, say, an eight-note anacrusis, you type

I'd introduce bar checks before partials.
Or did you want to avoid all possible warning messages?


Or perhaps just make a second chapter about measures: bar checks,  
partials, repeats, pickups.


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