Re: August 27 news

[Malte Meyn]

Am 30.08.18 um 13:52 schrieb Menu Jacques:
> Hello folks,
>
> Starting at measure 27, Recordare LLC’s ActorPreludeSample.xml contains 
> many notes on voice 1 of the Timpani with:

Hi Jacques,

what’s the context of your question? Is that a MusicXML example file?

> <duration>85</duration>

LilyPond doesn’t support durations that are not powers of 2 natively. 
But of course you can use another duration and scale it (or use it in 
tuplets), f. e. f64*64/85.

> that cannot be drawn with a duration and augmentation dots with:
> <duration>4096</duration>
> i.e. 4098 divisions per quarter note.

LilyPond supports durations as small as 1/1073741824 (1/2^30) though 
these short durations are supported only as beamed notes (up to 28 
beams). Unbeamed (= flagged) notes and rests go up to 1/128 (5 flags) in 
LilyPond version 2.19.82 and up to 1/1024 (8 flags) in LilyPond version 
2.21.0.

> Finale 2014 displays them in a ‘cluster like’ way, superposed to the 
> tremolos in voice 2:

That looks wrong to me: There are only 64th notes, not 4096th in that image.