Re: Problem with \partial

[Graham Percival]

Erik Sandberg wrote:
> On 7/9/06, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Erik Sandberg wrote:
> > In an ideal world we wouldn't need workarounds like this, but it's
> > useful to have a "fudge factor" \partial.  Perhaps we could rename it,
> > and hide it somewhere in the manual under "advanced tweaks"?  :)
>
> There is already a property that can be set (Timing.measurePosition
> IIRC) which is what \partial modifies.

Whoops, I should have realized this.  OK, I'm happy -- ugly hacks are 
still possible, but \upbeat is a better term for real uses of \partial.  :)

> I think something like
> that is the proper solution if you want to add a few extra mm of
> spacing.

In my case it was forcing lily to realize that my \partial should appear 
after the time signature of the other staff, not a spacing issue.  But 
manually tweaking measurePosition should be fine for that.

Cheers,
- Graham