Re: Partial

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden writes:
>
>> Am 2017-03-17 21:48, schrieb David Kastrup:
>>> Joseph Austin <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> I've been experimenting with \partial, the command for scoring
>>>> anacrusis, and discovered some apparently undocumented features.
>>>>
>>>> First of all, although I did not see it in the documentation,
>>>> the form \partial DUR*NUM, such as \partial 8*5, seems to work, where
>>>> NUM is an integer multiplying DUR.
>>>
>>> Multipliers are an optional part of _all_ durations, so DUR*NUM
>>> would be
>>> redundant.
>>>
>>>> This seems to be sufficient to accommodate any arbitrary anacrusis,
>>>> (except possibly partial tuplets, but I'm not sure such rhythms occur
>>>> in practice).
>>>
>>> Multipliers can be fractions.  \partial 4*3/7 will also work.
>>
>> Not at LilyPond ATM, but I'm sure  \partial 12*2 will also work,
>> amounting to 2 eight note triplets.
>
> Too bad, because 12 is not an unscaled duration.  You need to write
> \partial 8*2/3 here (for example).

Uh, this should be \partial 8*2/3*2 (8*2/3 being _one_ eighth note
triplet).

-- 
David Kastrup