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Re: Partial
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Partial |
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Fri, 17 Mar 2017 22:20:15 +0100 |
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address@hidden writes:
> Am 2017-03-17 21:48, schrieb David Kastrup:
>> 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.
>
> Not at LilyPond ATM, but I'm sure \partial 12*2 will also work,
> amounting to 2 eight note triplets.
Too bad, because 12 is not an unscaled duration. You need to write
\partial 8*2/3 here (for example).
--
David Kastrup