Re: warning: barcheck failed at: -5/8... but... WHERE?

[Graham Percival]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:51:01PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Arjan Bos wrote:
>> The "Known issues and warnings" about partial is worth a look too:  
>> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying-rhythms#index-_005cpartial-1>
>>  
>> 
> That particular formulation stems from a very old version of LilyPond.
> It might possibly have been true at that time, but for current
> LilyPond, I don't agree with what's written there. Also, if you
> look at the examples of repeats with upbeats at
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Long-repeats#Normal-repeats
> you can find examples where \partial is used in the middle of
> a score.

IIRC I added it within the past three years.  There was some bug
that had to do with \partial in the middle of the piece, but
Han-Wen's response was "then Don't Do That" and that \partials
should only be at the beginning.

Sorry I can't remember any other details.

Cheers,
- Graham