Re: partial measures

[Mark M. Wilson]

Oh, I see -- I was thinking I had to specify the 'balance,' i.e. the
other 11 beats of the 12-count bar. 
Thanks!
And I just 'solved' the other problem -- I ran
'lilypond myfile.ly' with no output type specified, and this of course
generated the default 'myfile.tex' file.  Then I ran 'tex myfile.tex'
and it generated a very usable myfile.dvi, which finally looks like
music!
But for some bizarre reason that I've not tracked down yet, the ly2dvi
command doesn't work directly.  Oh well, just one extra step.

Thanks all!
--Mark

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 06:48:39PM -0400, Kev wrote:
> > 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>
>