Re: Renaming baseMoment

[Dan Eble]

On 2024-12-13 13:20, Trevor Bača wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 2:00 AM David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Yup, but a duration has structural properties (there are different
> > durations with the same length).  That is not wanted here.
>
> The word "duration" means a length of time.
>
> Can someone explain what structural properties LilyPond's model of
> duration has, above and beyond simply modeling a length of time?

It has three parts:
1. power-of-2 note value
2. number of augmentation dots
3. scaling factor (to describe a member of a tuplet, for example)
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Dan