Re: [Denemo-devel] GetPrevailingDuration

[Nils Gey]

Am Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:00:48 +0000
schrieb Richard Shann <address@hidden>:

> On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 23:02 +0100, Nils Gey wrote:
> > Am I right that there is no GetPrevailingDuration? 
> > Would be a useful command.
> > 
> > Nils
> > P.S. This will possibly bring up a problem with Breve and
> > Longa again.
> 
> yes - it involves giving the duration of the next step in the current
> music snippet. This is now in git. Our terminology is a bit suspect:
> GetPrevailing... is wrt cursor position for clef, keysig, timesig
> whereas this is getting the duration that will be used for the next
> note insert. I wonder - did you have another semantic in mind: did
> you intend to ask for something that finds the duration of the
> note/rest at/before the cursor? That would be a script...
> Richard

My dictionary says prevailing is the current status which affects the
next step as well.
What I need is the Get companion of d-SetX. Current git seems to do
exactly that.

thanks,

Nils