Re: scaling both durations and displayed note values?

[James Harkins]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> James Harkins <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Is there a way to scale the durations of a passage of music, say, by a
> > factor of 2, so that not only do the notes take twice as much time,
> > but the displayed note values are also doubled?
> >
> > \scaleDurations does only the former, but not the latter.
> >
> > I'm finally sitting down to typeset a couple of mensural canons that I
> > wrote some years ago, and I was hoping to enter the part that is
> > imitated just once, in a variable, and then do something like:
> >
> > \scaleDurations #'(2 . 1) { \firstHalf }
> 
> \shiftDurations #1 #0 \firstHalf

That was it, thanks -- except I needed \shiftDurations #-1 #0 to augment 
instead of diminish.

The result is attached, should anyone care for a little amusement.

Thanks!
James


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