Re: How is Lily counting measures

[James]

Hello Laura,

On 6 January 2012 18:15, Laura Conrad <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> "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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http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2189




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James