Re: Substitute for s1*0

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote Sunday, May 06, 2012 9:34 AM
>
>> Quick: tell me what you would expect without too much thinking (imagine
>> you are a naive user) from the following:
>>
>> \new Staff <<
>>  \relative c'' { c4 d e f s1*0-\markup Oops c d e f g1 } \\
>>  \relative c' { c4 d e f <>-\markup Wow c d e f g1 }
>>
>> That's not really a competition, is it?
>
> Well, that's a poor example, as neither form is needed when
> there is a string of notes or s's.  So this particular issue
> doesn't really arise in practice.

I prefer things not to blow up even for poor examples.  s1*0 will change
the current parser duration to something that works quite unexpectedly
for the average user, and it will rarely be the last duration in the
whole file.

-- 
David Kastrup