Re: full rest side effect

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: David Nalesnik <address@hidden>
>To: Jonathan Wilkes <address@hidden> 
>Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden> 
>Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:34 AM
>Subject: Re: full rest side effect
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>Hi Jonathan,
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>On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <address@hidden> wrote:
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>Oops, I sent this to address@hidden by mistake.  Please ignore there...
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>>Hello,
>>In the following example the left hand gets rhythmically augmented.
>>What screwy thing am I doing?
>>This score boilerplate was generated using LilypondTool and I removed the 
>>irrelevant parts.
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>In the absence of an explicit duration, LilyPond will continue to use the last 
>duration given it.  So all the notes in the new Staff context are assigned a 
>dotted half times 2.  Make the first note in the "LH" context a c4
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>-David

Thanks, David.  I actually figured this out about 2 minutes after I posted.

Some time ago someone posted a proposal for "best practices" on here-- one of 
them was to explicitly write the duration for the note at the beginning of each 
line.  I started out doing that, then got lazy.  But I got punished for that!

-Jonathan