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Re: What's a moment?
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
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Re: What's a moment? |
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Thu, 1 May 2008 23:39:59 -0300 |
2008/4/30 Peter Chubb <address@hidden>:
> Mats> A quarter note is represented as 1/4, a dotted half note as 3/4,
> Mats> ... Obviously it makes sense to add and subtract moments, but
> Mats> since they internally are represented as rational numbers, you
> Mats> also get multiplication and division for free.
>
> So you're saying a lilypond moment is a duration of musical time, not an
> instant in musical time? Is there a function to translate from
> lilypond moment to lilypond duration and back?
Moments are used interchangeably for points and durations. There is a
fine point, though; Moment is really a tuple of rationals, with the
first being the 'main' time, and the 2nd the 'grace' time.
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