Re: Spacer Rests Global Confusion

[Simon Albrecht]

On 26.04.2018 18:02, R wrote:
> When the duration of the called variable is explicitly given, 
> everything is correct. However, if you remove the duration and have it 
> default to the normal quarter note, this causes a problem.

If you don’t give an explicit duration to a note, its duration is going 
to be the last duration previously encountered _in the input file_. This 
is done by the parser without any consideration about what’s eventually 
going to be used or how. The ‘default’ of a quarter note is therefore 
only effective for the very first note in a file.
It’s a bad idea to rely on that, anyway. You should really start each 
variable and likely even each line with an explicit pitch _and_ explicit 
duration. (In my own use I’m not so strict about _every_ line, but the 
first line in each variable is a must.)

Best, Simon