Re: I'm stumped - code check plz

[Atte André Jensen]

chip wrote:

> Thanks again guys. I don't recall reading anything in the manual about 
> not being able to extend the length of a half-note with dots.

Sorry, but you're way off :-)

The rule (in music, hence also in lily) is that a dot extends a note by
half it's original length. Half of a 1/2 note is a 1/4, not a 1/8

> It's 
> probably there somewhere.

No, because you can indeed extend with dots...

> Plus my son reminded me that the half-note
> would need two dots to extend it an 1/8 longer anyway (I forgot the dot 
> extends the note half of its value).

Hmmm, also wrong.

1/2 dotted = 1/2 + 1/4
1/2 double dotted = 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8

There's no way in musical notation (inside or outside lily) to extend a
1/2 by 1/8 using dots.

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