Re: Substitute for s1*0

[Carl Sorensen]

On May 7, 2012, at 3:29 AM, "Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 11:00:39AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> James <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Evidence? 'skip' is exactly what it says on the tin.
>> 
>> But we are not talking about \skip (which actually would have the
>> advantage of _not_ tampering with the current duration in the parser,
>> and the disadvantage that it does not take post-events and thus is
>> totally pointless for this task) but s.  s says nothing on the tin, you
>> need to look it up in the manual on its own.
> 
> wait, \skip and s aren't the same thing??
> 

See NR 1.2.3 invisible rests.  \skip is a command, not a note and does not 
affect the duration of future notes. Without having looked at the code, I 
imagine that \skip just adds to the current moment, while s actually creates a 
rhythmic event. 

Thanks,

Carl