Re: Let \time in mid-measure work without warning in some cases (issue 143450043 by address@hidden)

[dak]

On 2014/09/26 12:49:22, Dan Eble wrote:
> David, what do you think about adding a context property which \time
sets when
> it is called in mid-measure, which \partial resets, and about which
bar checks
> warn if it is set?

Don't drag bar checks into this.  I've thought about communicating this
kind of thing with a context property.  However, I cannot come up with a
scheme that would not require us to definitely state whether one has to
write \partial x \time y  or  \time y \partial x.

Which is a tolerable demand.  Here is how it would work with \partial x
\time y:

\partial sets a flag when encountered, and it resets it in its
end-of-timestep-hook.  \time complains when it is encountered
mid-measure without this flag.  I am not completely sure whether
\partial could actually just set measurePosition to zero as a "flag".
That would be simplest, but it might have unexpected side effects, like
with bar lines or numbering or such.

Here is how stuff would work with \time y \partial x:

\time sets a flag when called in mid-measure, and it resets it under
protest in an end-of-timestep hook if it's still set.  \partial (not in
its end-of-timestep hook but immediately) resets this flag.

I don't see a good reliable way of cranking out a warning without
prescribing a particular order of \partial and \time.


https://codereview.appspot.com/143450043/diff/40001/Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely
> File Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely (right):


https://codereview.appspot.com/143450043/diff/40001/Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely#newcode1395
> Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely:1395: The @address@hidden
can be any
> value less than a full measure.
> Oops.  I should have updated this.  The new regression test shows a
case where
> the partial duration is equal to a full measure in the new time
signature.

I suspect that _somebody_ should have updated this some time ago
already.  The end-of-timestep hook way of implementing \partial should
likely mean that the less-than-a-full-measure restriction no longer
applies.

https://codereview.appspot.com/143450043/