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From: | Stefan Thomas |
Subject: | Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax |
Date: | Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:46:14 +0200 |
A humble suggestion....
Please educate me if there is already a way to do this, but it
appears that 'q' as a shorthand for the repetition of the
previous note(s) only works for chords. It would be handy if it
worked for single notes also, specifically in ties.
\time 12/8
\partial 8
aes8
des,4. ~ q4 aes'8 d,4. ~ q4 a'8
des,4. ~ q4 aes'8 d,4. ~ q4 a'8
For that matter, it would be nice (though I suspect more
syntactically problematic) for subsequent notes in ties to only
require a duration, since by definition the pitch has already
been specified in the first note of the tie.
This might be written as:
\time 12/8
\partial 8
aes8
des,4.~4 aes'8 d,4.~4 a'8
des,4.~4 aes'8 d,4.~4 a'8
Flipping that around, it might (or might not, I'm not qualified
to say) be syntactically convenient to define a 'compound
duration' as one that includes two or more simple durations
separated by tildes. In the above example, the pitch is 'des,'
and the duration is '4.~4'. In 4/4 time, 'a2' takes up the same
time as 'a4~4' but of course in the notation, 'a4~4' is two notes
tied, and 'a2' is a single note.
I think this helps the readability to show that it is one pitch
of a given duration tied to a second duration, and conceivably
more:
Here the long C has a duration of '1~1~2~4~8', and the final
c has an implied duration of 8 since that is the duration of the
note preceding it in the notation.
\time 4/4
\partial 16
c16
c1~1~2~4~8 c
Instead of the current syntax:
\time 4/4
\partial 16
c16
c1~c1~c2~c4~c8 c
In chordmode:
\time 4/4
bes4~16:m7 ees16~8:7 aes2:maj7
Perhaps this idea has plenty of holes, but I think I would enjoy
learning from the discussion.
Thank you for your time,
Jim
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