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Re: Partial


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Partial
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 21:48:50 +0100
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Joseph Austin <address@hidden> writes:

> I've been experimenting with \partial, the command for scoring
> anacrusis, and discovered some apparently undocumented features.
>
> First of all, although I did not see it in the documentation, 
> the form \partial DUR*NUM, such as \partial 8*5, seems to work, where
> NUM is an integer multiplying DUR.

Multipliers are an optional part of _all_ durations, so DUR*NUM would be
redundant.

> This seems to be sufficient to accommodate any arbitrary anacrusis,
> (except possibly partial tuplets, but I'm not sure such rhythms occur
> in practice).

Multipliers can be fractions.  \partial 4*3/7 will also work.

> Also, durations specified with dots also work, e.g  \partial 4..
>
> Should these options be added to the documentation?
> (Or perhaps it's already there but I missed it.)

All those can be part of _any_ duration.  Nothing specific to \partial .

-- 
David Kastrup



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