Re: How is Lily counting measures

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

    >> From the manual:

    David>     Upbeats
    David>     .......

    David>     Partial or pick-up measures, such as an anacrusis or upbeat, are
    David>     entered using the `\partial' command, with the syntax

    David>     \partial DURATION

    David>     where `DURATION' is the rhythmic length of the remaining 
interval of
    David>     the current measure before the start of the next.

    David> I repeat: the length of the _remaining_ interval of the current
    David> measure.  So you need \partial 2 here.

Yes, I've read that section regularly for the last 15 years or so, and
obviously never understood it. I've occasionally managed to get an
anacrusis entered correctly, but since I don't usually use barlines, I
haven't always been able to tell whether Lily understood what I was
saying or not.

I always thought that if I ever did figure out what it meant, I should
help rewrite it.

How about:

    \partial DURATION

    where 'DURATION' describes the length of the partial measure.  For
    example:

    \time 4/4
    \partial 4
    g4 | c c c2 |

I think including an example in a case like this is always a good idea.

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