Re: partial measures

[Kev]

> I'm trying to write an eighth-note pickup to a full measure in 12/8
> time.  I wrote:
> \partial 11  e8
> but this doesn't work.  The syntax reference didn't give an example, and
> since I'm apparently an idiot, I can't figure out what kind of number or
> what value I'm supposed to specify. What should follow the `\partial' ?
> Thanks again. (still working on the other problem - might try installing
> a 'pure' potato Debian on a spare partition to see if there's a problem
> with the tex and ghostscript that comes with Libranet 2.0.)

The number is supposed to be a note length that specifies the length of
the partial measure--in this case, "\partial 8 e8" should do the trick.
-- 
Kevin L. Mitchell <address@hidden>