Re: Should \partial accept music instead of duration?

[David Kastrup]

Tim's Bitstream <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:

>> On Mar 20, 2022, at 2:24 AM, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:
>> 
>> What about providing a new command `\upbeat` and moving `\partial`
>> into oblivion?  Compare this to `\tuplet` vs. `\times`.
>
> Perhaps this is an American jazzism, but we would refer to those as
> \pickup notes.

\pickup has a reasonable ring to it, fitting it in a reasonable subset
of applications for \partial .  The problem I have is figuring out its
role, though.

With \times/\tuplet we clearly phased out \times for \tuplet
consistently in the documentation.  I am not really on-board with the
same regarding \partial/\pickup : the overlap in semantics is different
in character.

-- 
David Kastrup