Re: Partials and upbeats

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:58:13AM -0700, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> 
> On 3/10/10 10:04 AM, "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > If I now modify the file to move the \partial to the first Staff/Voice, I
> > get the following error:
> > 
> > .... warning: barcheck failed at: -1/4
> >   R4   |  % 1

IIRC I added this to the tracker 3 years ago.

> Personally, I think that the warning is "technically" correct, since R
> indicates a full-measure rest, and a full measure rest should start at
> measure-position zero.

We could argue about what the desired program output should be (I
don't like the current behavior), but since nobody worked on this
issue in the past 3 years, I see no benefit to arguing about what
it should do now.

Cheers,
- Graham