Re: duration longer than meter?

[N. Andrew Walsh]

Bernhard, I'm not sure to what your first statement refers, but regarding the second, the issue here is that Vivyan is reading the measure wrong. There are two parallel voices in the linked image:

On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 8:14 PM, Vivyan <address@hidden> wrote:

This excerpt is from Gymnopedie which is in 3/4 but still, this notation is
involved. I'm just trying to write it into lilypond.

One voice is the two dotted half notes; the other is the quarter-rest and two quarters. 

Vivyan, see NR 1.5.2: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices for how to encode multiple voices in the same bar (and my previous message for how to do cross-staff notes). 

Cheers,

A