Re: Dividing (or multiplying) note lengths?

[Bernhard Ott]

On 03/30/2010 02:07 AM, Hilary Snaden wrote:
> I'm typesetting a Palestrina motet, possibly the first of several. For
> ease of proofreading, I've used the original (long) note values from the
> collected works edition, but I'd like to generate output with halved
> note-values, as is current practice. Can Lilypond do this automagically,
> or must I explicitly change the note lengths in the input file? (If the
> latter, I'll probably write a Perl or Python script to process the
> initial input files.)
You may want to have a look at Frescobaldis "Halve durations" feature (I 
discovered it *after* successfully confronting myself with my poor 
knowledge of Perl ;-))

Regards,
Bernhard