Re: Explicit default duration?

[David Kastrup]

Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> writes:

> On 2023-01-23 3:35 pm, David Kastrup wrote:
>> p would require that there actually is a next pitch (or drum type,
>> assuming that p gets specialcased like r and R).
>
> I feel like I am missing context from the original query.  '0' seems
> to only be necessary if there is another event following as well.
>
>
>> Also it begs the question what to do about c2 <e p> ...
>
> Yeah, does the 'p' pick up the most recently input 'e' or is it
> shorthand for the 'c' that occurred before?  Perhaps it just is
> forbidden in chords, like 'q' is.

An idle musing:  I think instead of p for last pitch, I think I'd prefer
x.

Cf

    c'' p2

    c'' x2

For some reason, p looks more like a particular pitch to me than x .
Now I am not the greatest fan of q either but that ship has sailed.

And I guess there is little utility in

   c'' ibid2

...

-- 
David Kastrup