Re: duration and pitch in a function

[David Kastrup]

Paolo Prete <address@hidden> writes:

> I need to create a function that
>
> accepts some_pitch and some_duration as arguments and prints the
> following three notes:
>
> 1) some_pitch with some_duration
> 2) some_pitch with some_duration*2
> 3) some_pitch with some_duration*3
>
>
> Should I use ly:duration as type of the argument two?

ly:duration? would be the predicate.  And yes, definitely.

> I can't find documentation for that.
>
> I use LilyPond 2.12.3 but I can upgrade it if necessary...

If you upgrade, you will find both the functionality itself as well as
the documentation.

I don't quite remember the version; it might be necessary to take one of
the 2.15.x releases.

-- 
David Kastrup