Question about 2.19 and \partial

[Steven Weber]

Hey everyone!

 

I’ve got a question about typesetting partials in the middle of a piece and what their bar number should be.

 

If you have a partial at the beginning of a piece, the bar number is (essentially) 0 – it doesn’t count as far as bar numbers go.  Because of that, I assumed that partials in the middle of the piece would be the same – they either have the bar number of the previous bar, or the bar number of the next bar.  However, it appears that partial bars get their own bar number:

 

\partial 4 r4 % Bar 0

R1*9

R1 % Bar 10

\time 3/4

\partial 4 r4 % Bar 11

R2. % Bar 12

 

Is this expected typesetting behavior?

 

Thanks!

 

--Steven