Re: August 27 news

[Jacques Menu Muzhic]

Hello Malte,

I’m studying MusicXML and bumped into this particular duration problem.
It looks like Finale handles that in its own way.

I hadn’t thought that code like f64*64/85 would be a solution.

Thanks for your clarifications, and a nice day!

JM

> Le 30 août 2018 à 14:03, Malte Meyn <address@hidden> a écrit :
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> 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.
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